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William Borlase (
February 2,
1695 -
August 31,
1772),
English antiquary and
naturalist, was born at
Pendeen in
Cornwall, of an ancient family.
He was educated at
Exeter College, Oxford and in 1719 he was ordained. In 1722 he was presented to the rectory of
Ludgvan, and in 1732 he obtained in addition the vicarage of
St Just, his native parish. In the parish of Ludgvan were rich
copper works, abounding with mineral and metallic
fossils, of which he made a collection, and thus was led to study somewhat minutely the natural history of the county.
In 1750 he was admitted a
fellow of the Royal Society; and, in 1754, he published, at Oxford, his
Antiquities of Cornwall (2nd ed., London, 1769). His next publication was
Observations on the Ancient and Present State of the Islands of Scilly, and their Importance to the Trade of Great Britain (Oxford, 1756). In 1758 appeared his
Natural History of Cornwall
.
He presented to the
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, a variety of fossils and antiquities, which he'd described in his works, and received the thanks of the university and the degree of
Doctor of Civil Law Borlase was well acquainted with most of the leading literary men of the time, particularly with
Alexander Pope, with whom he kept up a long correspondence, and for whose grotto at
Twickenham he furnished the greater part of the
fossils and
minerals.
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