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James Pound (1669 - 1724)

Alias Jacobi Pound [Alias]

Astronomer, physician, and clergyman. He worked for the East India Company as chaplain to the merchants of Fort George, Madras, and Zhoushan Island (formerly Anglicized as Chushan Island), where a Company factory was established in teh 1670s. He donated to the Ashmolean a collection of plants and animals collected in India, which "evidently included a number of specimens preserved in spirits, displayed for visual effect in glass jars in the windows of the Museum" (MacGregor, 2). Dictionary of National Biography entry: http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/22637 Other biography: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Pound Relevant locations: Workplace or place of business Fort St. George, Madras
Workplace or place of business Zhoushan Island
 Relationships: James Pound was a donor to Ashmolean Museum (1683-)
James Pound was a employed by East India Company (1600-)

 Linked print sources: as Mentioned or referenced by - Oxoniensis academia: or, The antiquities and curiosities of the University of Oxford, giving an account of all the public edifices ... together with lists of the founders, public benefactors, governors, and visitors of the several colleges and halls ... also lists of the chancellors ... [etc.] of this university.
as Mentions or references - Ashmolean Museum Oxford: Manuscript Catalogues of the Early Museum Collections, 1683-1886 (Part I).
 References in Documents:
MS Book of the Principal of Brasenose College (MacGregor, ed.) Jacobus Pound M.B. pro Singulari Suo in Musæum Ashmoleanum studio & benevolentiâ, omnia ea Vegetabilia & Animalia ex Indiâ Orientali advecta, quæ cy. James Pound, Bachelor of Medicine, out of his singular devotion and generosity to the Ashmolean Museum, donated to it all the vegetable and animal specimens he had brought home from the East Indies, which can be seen in cylindrical glass jars in the windows of the Museum.
MS Book of Benefactors (MacGregor, ed.)

James Pound, Bachelor of Medicine, out of his singular devotion and generosity to the Ashmolean Museum, donated to it all the vegetable and animal specimens he had brought home from the East Indies, which can be seen in cylindrical glass jars in the windows of the museum.