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George Huddesford (1699? - 1776)

President of Trinity College, Oxford (1731-1776), Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University from 1753 to 1756, and keeper of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford from 1732 to 1755. Other biography: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Huddesford_%28Vice-Chancellor%29 Curator
Relevant locations: Workplace or place of business Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Workplace or place of business Trinity College (Oxford), Oxford University
References in Documents:
MS Book of the Principal of Brasenose College (MacGregor, ed.) Illa quibus nullus in Margine assignatur Numerus e Museo subducta sunt Cimelia, annuentibus V. Can. aliisque Curatoribus, ad ea Lustranda convocatis die Jan.ii. Octvo. Convocatis An: Dñi. 1755. Those items to which no number is assigned in the margin are withdrawn with the approval of the Vice-Chancellor and the other Visitors, who met on 8 January 1755 to examine them.
Consolidated catalogue of 1695: The Book of the Vice-Chancellor (MacGregor, ed.) n.b. Amissi loī: jam supplet aliud Numisma ejusd: Regis: Edward ? VI. D.' G.' Angl. Fran' & : Hib. Rex. & intra orbita. XII. R. Posui Deum Ad Adjutorem meum. D.D. Georg. Huddesford S.T.P. Coll. S.S. & Individ. Trin. Presidens & hujusce Musei Cimeliarcha. A.D. 1746. Replacing the lost coin is another of the same King Edward VI. Given by George Huddesford, Professor of Sacred Theology, Fellow and President of Trinity College and keeper of this Museum; 1746.