The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700

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Smart Lethieullier (1701 - 1760)

Antiquary and businessman. He donated to the Ashmolean Museum "sixteen specimens in jars ... [that] previously had formed part of the Woodward collection" (MacGregor, 2). Dictionary of National Biography entry: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/16522 Other biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_Lethieullier Relevant locations: Educated at Eton College, Windsor
Educated at Trinity College (Oxford), Oxford University
 Relationships: Smart Lethieullier was a donor to Ashmolean Museum (1683-)
Smart Lethieullier was a recipient of object(s) from John Woodward (1 May 1665 or 1668-25 Apr 1728)

 Linked print sources: as Mentions or references - Ashmolean Museum Oxford: Manuscript Catalogues of the Early Museum Collections, 1683-1886 (Part I).
 References in Documents:
MS Book of Benefactors (MacGregor, ed.)

Smart Lethiullier Esq., of Aldersbrook in Essex, in 1756, gave this Museum various species of animals which he had purchased from the Woodward collection. They are enclosed in sixteen cylindrical glass jars.