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Richard Meggot (died 7
December 1692) was a
Canon of
Windsor from 1677 to 1692 and Dean of
Winchester from 1679 to 1692. He was
educated at Queens' College...
- John
Elwes MP (born John
Meggot or Meggott; 7
April 1714 – 26
November 1789) was a
member of
parliament (MP) in
Great Britain for
Berkshire (1772–1784)...
- Lacy Ryan as Frankly,
William Havard as Bellamy,
Henry Woodward as Jack
Meggot,
Hannah Pritchard as Clarinda,
Elizabeth Vincent as
Jacintha and Jane Hippisley...
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Benjamin Meggot Forster (16
January 1764 – 8
March 1829) was an
English botanist and
mycologist who
published An
Introduction to the
Knowledge of Fungusses...
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classical literary education, but
learned some
science from his
uncle Benjamin Meggot Forster. The
Great Comet of 1811
aroused his
interest in astronomy, a science...
- plant-collector John
Elwes (politician) (1714–1789),
grandson of Sir
Gervase (born
Meggot) John
Elwes (tenor) (born 1946),
English singer Polly Elwes (1928–1987)...
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Forster the
elder and his wife Susanna;
Thomas Furly Forster and
Benjamin Meggot Forster were his
brothers and
Susanna Dorothy Forster his sister. He received...
- by whom he left
three sons,
Thomas Furly Forster (1761–1825),
Benjamin Meggot Forster (1764–1829), and
Edward Forster the
Younger (1765–1849), and a daughter...
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Philanthropist and
abolitionist William Dillwyn -
Quaker and
abolitionist Benjamin Meggot Forster - Botanist,
abolitionist and
brother of T. F.
Forster Josiah Forster...
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December 6 – John Tyrrell,
Royal Navy
officer (b. 1646)
December 7 –
Richard Meggot,
English churchman,
Canon of
Windsor and Dean of
Winchester (b. 1632) December...