Charles Richard Weld
1823–69
Author and librarian. Attended classes at Trinity College, Dublin, but did not take a degree. Secretary of the London Statistical Society, 1839. Studied law and was called to the bar in 1844 but did not practise. Librarian of the Royal Society of London, 1843–61. Published a history of the society in 1848, and a series of travel books.
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ODNB
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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