John Crouch
1796–1858
Society administrator and embezzler. Born in Puttenham, Surrey, the son of Samuel and Elizabeth Crouch. Curator of the library of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. Yeoman bedell of Cambridge University. Cricketer. Embezzled money from the Cambridge Philosophical Society; declared bankrupt, 1851.
Sources
Cambridge Independent Press, 14 August 1858, p. 8
Census returns of England and Wales 1841 (The National Archives: Public Record Office HO107/86/15/8/15), 1851 (HO107/176/793/22)
Gibson 2019 pp. 141–75
London Gazette, 11 February 1851, p. 357
Surrey Church of England Parish Registers PUT/1/2 (Ancestry.com, accessed 22 July 2022)
Bibliography
Gibson, Susannah. 2019. The spirit of inquiry: how one extraordinary society shaped modern science. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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