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William Perrot ( - fl. 1761)

Relevant locations: Lived at or near North Leigh, Oxfordshire
 Relationships: William Perrot was a donor to Ashmolean Museum (1683-)

 References in Documents:
MS Book of Benefactors (MacGregor, ed.)

A.D. MDCCLXI.

Gul: Perrot de North-Leigh in Com Oxon Arm: Vespertilionem ingentem Asiæ Incolam, Canem volantem dictum, huic Museo lautè favens contulit. Cujus Animalis Naturam ex Edvardi Historia Avium Tab. 180. plenius investiget Lector.

MS Book of Benefactors (MacGregor, ed.)

William Perrot Esq., of North Leigh in Oxfordshire, generously gave a giant Asian bat, known as a flying dog [fox], to this Museum. The reader may study this animal more fully in Edwards's History of Birds, pl. 180.

Consolidated catalogue of 1695: The Book of the Junior Proctor (MacGregor, ed.) Wm. Perrot Esqr. a large Bat.