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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) Roles: Botanist
Relevant locations: Birth place in Kendal
Educated at Queen's College (Oxford)
Visited Levant
Visited Morocco
Visited Egypt
Visited Tripoli
Workplace or place of business Algiers
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