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Hayford Wainwright, Dr. ( - )

Physician Relevant locations: Past Location at Derbyshire, England
Relationships: Hayford Wainwright was a donor to Ralph Thoresby (1658-1725)

Linked print sources: as Donator of object(s) - Ducatus Leodiensis; or the topography of the town and parish of Leedes and parts adjacent ...
References in Documents:
Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713)

A prodigious Tooth of an Elephant; it is eleven Inches in Circumference, besides what hath been broken off. The Bones of this Creature are frequently exposed as Humane, and this accordingly pass'd as a Giant's Tooth, but is one of the Grinders of an Elephant; and perhaps of the very same Animal mentioned in the Additions to Derbyshire (g)(g) Camden's Brit. N. E. p. 497. ; whence this was brought, and given me by Dr. Hayford Wainwright.

A Catalogue of the Naturall and Artificial Curiositys in my slender Musaeum at Leedes Ano. 1708 a predigious tooth of an Elephant I presume from Darbyshire, ‘tis eleven inches in circumference besides what seemes to hath been broken off, it seems to have been of the same animal mentioned in the New Britannia p. 497. Dr. H: Waynwrights gift.