Matthew Maty [SEP] date of death
Matthew Maty
Matthew Maty (17 May 1718 – 2 July 1776), originally Matthieu Maty, was a Dutch physician and writer of Huguenot background, and after migration to England secretary of the Royal Society and the second principal librarian of the British Museum.
Early life.
The son of Paul Maty, he was born at Montfoort, near Utrecht, the Netherlands, on 17 May 1718. His father was a Protestant refugee from Beaufort, Provence; he settled in the Dutch Republic and became minister of the Walloon
Paul Henry Maty
Paul Henry Maty (1744, London - 16 January 1787) was an English librarian.
He was born in London, the son of the librarian Matthew Maty (1718-1786) and was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. He vacated a Trinity fellowship to marry in 1775. In 1777 he published his religious doubts about the 39 articles in the "Gentleman's Magazine". With his Ecclesiastical advancement thus impeded, he became an assistant librarian, and then under-librarian, at the British