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FOLKES, MARTIN (1690-17J4) , English antiquary, was born in London on the 29th of October 1690. He was educated at Saumur University and Clare College, Cambridge , where he so distinguished himself in mathematics that when only twenty-three years of age he was chosen a fellow of the Royal Society. He was elected one of the council in 1716, and in 1723 Sir Isaac Newton, president of the society, appointed him one of the vice-presidents. On the death of Newton he became a candidate for the presidency
Academy
Oxford
Cambridge . In 1733 he set out on a tour through Italy, in the course of which he composed his Dissertations on the Weights and Values of Ancient Coins. Before the Society of Antiquaries, of which he was president from 1749 to 1754, he read in 1736 his Observations on the Trojan and Antonine Pillars at Rome and his Table of English Gold Coins from the r8th Year of King Edward
Lucretia
Lane (see Nichols
For Sir John Hill's attack on Folkes ( Review of the Works of the Royal Soc., 1751), see D'Israeli, Calamities and Quarrels of Authors (186o), pp. 364-366.End of Article: FOLKES, MARTIN (1690-17J4) If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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