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DEMAINBRAY, STEPHEN CHARLES TRIBOUDET, son of Stephen Triboudet de Mainbray, St. Martin’s in the Fields, Huguenot refugee, and Marie, dau. of Rev. Alexandre de Schivac, Minister of French Church, Bristol; b. 20 Feb 1710; at school under Freind (Lysons, Environs of London, iii, 317); (Desaguliers'); Leiden Univ.; Edinburgh Univ., LLD; lectured at Edinburgh on experimental philosophy; fought as volunteer in English army at Prestonpans 21 Sep 1745; kept boarding school for young ladies, Edinburgh; afterwards went to Dublin, Bordeaux, Montpelier and Lyon; tutor in mathematics, physics and natural history to the future King George III when Prince of Wales 1754-60; Astronomer, Royal Observatory, Kew, from 1768; held “three remunerative offices in the Custom House”, as Examiner of Out-Port Books (by 1769), Surveyor of the East India Warehouse (appointed Jul 1765), and Inspector of Un-rated East India Goods (by 1760); m. 1st, before leaving school, Mary Warshare, Embden [sic : in Netherlands ?]; m. 2nd, 1 Feb 1755 Sarah, sister of John Horne Tooke (qv); d. 20 Feb 1782. DNB.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.