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Uvedale, Robert, 1642-1722
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1642-1722
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UVEDALE, ROBERT, son of Robert Uvedale, St. Margaret’s, Westminster, and Margaret ---; b. 25 May 1642; adm.; KS 1656; while at school is said to have snatched one of the escutcheons from the bier at Oliver Cromwell’s funeral Nov 1658 (G. F. Russell Barker, Memoir of Richard Busby, 17-8); elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1659, adm. pens. 10 May 1659, scholar 1659, matr. 1660; BA 1662/3; MA 1666; LLD 1682; Fellow, Trinity Coll. 1664 - c. 1679; Master, Enfield GS 1664; also kept boarding school at The Old Palace, Enfield, where he is supposed to have planted the Enfield cedar c. 1670; ordained deacon (London) Mar 1665/6, priest 9 Jan 1691/2 (sic); Rector of Orpington with St. Mary Cray, Kent, from 1691/2; Rector of Barking and Needham, Suffolk 1700; famous for his skill in cultivating exotic plants, and one of the earliest possessors of hothouses in England; most of his collection of growing plants were purchased at his death by Sir Robert Walpole for his garden at Houghton, Norfolk; his Herbarium in fourteen volumes is in the Sloane collection, British Museum; the genus Uvedalia was named in his honour by Petiver; contributed the life of Dion to Dryden’s translation of Plutarch, 1683-6; m. 20 Jun 1678 Mary, second dau. of Edward Stephens, Cherington, Gloucs., and grand-daughter of Sir Matthew Hale; d. 17 Aug 1722. DNB.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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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.