Case file
Loan 96 RLF 1/681
Mr Edward Donovan, and Miss Sophia Donovan and Miss Isabella Donovan, his daughters
Mr Edward Donovan
Applications
10 (8 successful)
Date period
1807-10 Feb 1877
Awards
- 25 Apr 1830 (£50)
- Nov 1831 (£25)
- Nov 1832 (£25)
- Dec 1833 (£10)
- Dec 1834 (rejected)
- Feb 1835 (£10)
- 25 Oct 1835 (£25)
- 29 Oct 1836 (£10)
- 6 Feb 1837 (£50 - to his daughters)
- 11 Dec 1837 (his daughters; rejected)
Other author name(s)
-
Author's career
- Founder and proprietor of The London Museum and Institute of Natural History
- Fellow of the Linnean Society
Author's works published
Scientific : Natural History
Also named in file
Miss Isabella Donovan (dependent)
Miss Sophia Donovan (dependent)
More information
Timeline
1830
Edward Donovan to the Committee of the Literary Fund
25 Apr 1830
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1806
Advertisement for the ‘London Museum, Fleet Street’ – The London Museum and Institute of Natural History run by Edward Donovan, with advertisements for his publications included
1807?
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1830
Sophia Brookes to the Committee of the Literary Fund
25 May 1830
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Owen Rees to Joseph Snow
7 May 1830
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Edward Donovan to the Committee of the Literary Fund
10 May 1830
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1831
Edward Donovan to the Committee of the Literary Fund
Nov 1831
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Owen Rees to Joseph Snow
14 Nov 1831
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Edward Donovan to the Committee of the Literary Fund
16 Nov 1831
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1832
Edward Donovan to the Committee of the Literary Fund
Nov 1832
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Receipt, signed Edward Donovan
15 Dec 1832
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Edward Donovan to the Committee of the Literary Fund
24 Dec 1832
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1833
Edward Donovan to the Committee of the Literary Fund
Dec 1833
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Edward Donovan to the Committee of the Literary Fund
Dec 1833
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1834
Edward Donovan to the Committee of the Literary Fund
Dec 1834
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Edward Donovan to Joseph Snow
Dec 1834
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1800
Copy of a letter from Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green to Edward Donovan
1800s
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1806
Copy of a letter from James Parkinson to William Nicholson
1807?
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Extract from Dr Atkins’ Athenaeum
1807?
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1807
Copy of a letter from George Humphrey to Edward Donovan
1807
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Copy of a letter from George Humphrey to Edward Donovan
10 May 1807
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1835
Edward Donovan to the Committee of the Literary Fund
Feb 1835
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Receipt, signed Edward Donovan
14 Feb 1835
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Edward Donovan to Joseph Snow
Feb 1835
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Sophia Donovan to Joseph Snow
25 Oct 1835
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Edward Donovan to the Committee of the Literary Fund [largely illegible]
1835
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Receipt, signed Sophia Donovan for Edward Donovan
12 Nov 1835
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Sophia Donovan to the Committee of the Literary Fund
19 Nov 1835
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1836
Sophia Donovan to the Committee of the Literary Fund
29 Oct 1836
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Sophia Donovan to the Committee of the Literary Fund
29 Nov 1836
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Edward Donovan to the Committee of the Literary Fund
Nov 1836
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1837
Sophia and Isabella Donovan to the Committee of the Literary Fund
6 Feb 1837
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John H Pindar to the Committee of the Literary Fund – death certificate for Edward Donovan
4 Feb 1837
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Henry Searle to the Committee of the Literary Fund – death certificate for Edward Donovan
30 Feb 1837
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Receipt, signed Sophia Donovan
9 Feb 1837
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Receipt, signed Samuel Dallman for Sophia Donovan
2 Mar 1837
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Sophia Donovan to the Committee of the Literary Fund
1837
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Sophia and Isabella Donovan to the Committee of the Literary Fund
11 Dec 1837
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1877
Anne Taylor, daughter of Edward Donovan, to Octavian Blewitt, asking him to support her pension application
10 Feb 1877
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