Spalding Gentlemen's Society
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The Spalding Gentlemen's Society is a learned society based in Spalding, Lincolnshire, England, concerned with cultural, scientific and antiquarian subjects. It is Britain's oldest such provincial bod
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A Letter from Cromwell Mortimer, M.D. Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians London, Secretary to the Royal Society of London, Member of the Gentlemen's Society at Spalding, &c. to William Bogdani, (14592358717)
Jetton of John Ray, who was grandfather of the Rev. Benjamin Ray, Perpetual Curate of Cowbit and Surfleet (elected a member of the Spalding Gentlemen's Society in 1723), and a relative of the founder, Maurice Johnson
Isaac Newton
Ayuba Suleiman Diallo
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Ayuba Suleiman Diallo, also known as Job Ben Solomon, was a prominent Fulani Muslim prince from Bundu in West Africa who was kidnapped and trafficked to the Americas during the Atlantic slave trade.
Spalding Gentlemen's Society
…Sir Isaac Newton. Stukeley's unpublished memoir of Newton mentions his joining the society, and making a substantial donation of books. Ayuba Suleiman Diallo, freed slave, Muslim cleric and aristocrat from Senegal Dr William Stukeley, cleric and antiquary…
Portrait of Diallo by William Hoare (1733)