Robert Were Fox

(1789-1877)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Fox, Robert Were, 1789-1877 NRA: Fox Robert Were (1789-1877) inventor DNB: Fox, Robert Were (1789-1877), geologist and physicist LBT ID: RoFox1877 VIAF ID: 22921193 LOC ID: no2010000452	B/BAP: 1789-04-26 DIED: 1877-07-25
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Quaker geologist of Falmouth in Cornwall; he corresponded with Michael Faraday and was a member of the Plymouth Institute.
REFERENCES TO Robert Were Fox: Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch. 12: G. P. R. James Found 1: ¶ 3 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter VI. Found 1: ¶ 30