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STUKELEY, WILLIAM (1687-2765)

This article appears in Volume V25, Page 1051 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: STE-SUS
STUKELEY, WILLIAM (1687-2765) , English antiquary, was born at Holbeach, Lincolnshire, on the 7th of November 1687; the son of a Iawyer. After taking his M.B. degree at
Cambridge
 , he went to London and studied
medicine
  at St
Thomas
 's
Hospital
 
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. In 1710 he started in practice in Lincolnshire, removing in 1717 to London. In the same year he became a fellow of the Royal Society, and, in 1718, joined in the
establishment
  of the Society of Antiquaries, acting for nine years as its secretary. In. 1719 he took his M.D. degree and in 1720 became a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, publishing in the same year his first contribution to antiquarian literature. His principal
work
 , an elaborate account of Stonehenge, appeared in 1740, and he wrote copiously on other supposed Druid remains, becoming familiarly known as the " Arch-Druid." In 1729 he took holy orders, and, after holding two livings in Lincolnshire, was appointed
rector
  of a parish in Bloomsbury, London. He died in London on the 3rd of
March
  1765.


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