The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
Thomas Shaw (1694 - 1751)
Appointed chaplain to the English factory at Algiers in 1720. He travelled widely around the Mediterranean and the Holy Land in 1721–2, to Tunis and Carthage in 1727, and into Algiers, Tripoli, and Morocco. Dictionary of National Biography entry: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/25269 Other biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Shaw_(divine_and_traveller) BotanistRelevant locations: Birth place in Kendal, Westmorland
Educated at Queen's College (Oxford), Oxford University
Visited Morocco, Africa
Visited Egypt, Africa
Visited Tripoli, Libya
Visited Levant, Asia
Workplace or place of business Algiers, Algeria
Workplace or place of business Algiers, Morocco
References in Documents:
MS Book of Benefactors (MacGregor, ed.)