William Arderon [SEP] date of birth
William Arderon
William Arderon (1703– 25 November 1767) was an English naturalist.
Life.
Arderon moved from Yorkshire to Norwich as an excise officer. There influential contacts for him the post of managing clerk at the New Mills. He became close to Henry Baker to whose works on the microscope he contributed.
Arderon was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1745, and was later regarded as the founder of a school of naturalists and men of science in Norwich. He died 25 November 1767,
William Bourchier, 3rd Earl of Bath
William Bourchier, 3rd Earl of Bath (29 Sep 1557 – 12 July 1623) was Lord Lieutenant of Devon. His seat was at Tawstock Court, three miles south of Barnstaple in North Devon, which he rebuilt in the Elizabethan style in 1574, the date being sculpted on the surviving gate house.
Origins.
He was born on 29 September 1557 in Devon, the eldest son of John Bourchier, Lord FitzWarin (died 1557) (who died shortly after his birth