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Founding of the Society
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Year
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Authority / Notes
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1710
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According to the
Spalding Gentlemen's Society website
( ),
the Society is the
"earliest provincial association for the encouragement of
archaeology" and "was founded by Maurice Johnson,
(1688-1755)".
It began in 1710 as a series of informal meetings in Spalding, and was
established more formally in 1712.
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Seat of the Society
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City
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Authority / Notes
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Spalding
England
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This location is supported by the name of the Society.
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Name of the Society
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Dates
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Name
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Authority
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1732
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Gentlemen's Society in Spalding
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The Brit. Lib. cat. has a record for a
1944 photographic reproduction of the following 1732 publication
A Plan of the Town of Spalding in South Holland, Lincolnshire, as
surveyed, delineated and humbly presented to the Gentlemen's Society in
Spalding, by ... John Grundy.
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1790 - 1851
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Gentlemen's Society at Spalding
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The Oxford Univ. cat. has a record for the
following 1790 publication
An account of the Gentlemen's society at Spalding;
it also has a record for the following 1851 publication
The Gentlemen's society at Spalding: its origin and progress [a
paper by W. Moore. Followed by] A list of members.
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1892
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Spalding Gentleman's Society
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The Cambridge Univ. cat. has a record for
the following 1892 publication
The Holbeach parish register of baptisms,marriages and
burials,A.D.1606 and 1613-1641;... / ...arranged by the Rev.Grant
W.Macdonald ; Also a paper read by him before the Spalding Gentleman's
Society,4th November,1891
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1893 -
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Spalding Gentlemen's Society
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The Brit. Lib. cat. has a record for
the following 1893 publication
Catalogue of the Books, Manuscripts, Pamphlets and Tracts in the
Library of the Spalding Gentlemen's Society. Compiled by E. W. Maples,
B.A., and George Goodwin ... revised, etc.;
this is the current name used at its website
().
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Spalding Gentlemen's Society
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