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   Place
   Francis
   F. P. ;
   1. Mrs. Ann Wintringham 2. Mrs. Ann Wilkinson
   3 daughters: Elizabeth, Ann, Frances
   1647 in Dinsdale, Durham
   1728
   York, North Yorkshire
   propertied lawyer Rowland Place (1616-80) of Dinsdale, Durham
   4 brothers
   law; taught etching by Wenceslaus Hollar
   United Kingdom
   nat. med. Sir Martin Lister: Historiae Animalum Angliae 1678 & Godartius Insects 1682; astronomer John Flamsteed (1646-1719)
   Permanent Secretary Henry Oldenburg of the Royal Society of London; Royal Observatory in Greenwich.
   artists & illustr.: ->William Lodge, ->Francis Barlow; draughtsman ->Robert Thacker; astronomer John Flamsteed
   astronomical, zoological & topographic painting, drawing, etching, mezzotint, stoneware, porcelain
   http://prints.royalsociety.org/artist/8153/francis-place
   
   AKL; ThB27 1933:128; DNB; R.Tyler: Exhib York Art Gallery 1971; R.W. Unwin: Lister Illustrators, Notes Rec. RSL 49(2) 1995:209-30; Lesley Murdin: Under Newton's Shadow. Astronomical Practice in the 17th Century, Bristol & Boston 1985: 17; Richard Dunn: The Telescope - A Short History, Greenwich: National Martime Museum, 2009: 41;
   active in London & Greenwich
   16173380
   
   


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