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Henry Englefield

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of 1791. Englefield took an independent line. In 1792 he was prepared to move a strong resolution at the general meeting of English Catholics. He was dissuaded by mediators between the two parties.
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printed a list of his papers contributed to the transactions of the Society of Antiquaries, Royal Society, Royal Institution, Society of Arts, and the Linnaean Society, as well as to
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as president. Owing, however, to his being a Catholic, objection was taken to his re-election; another factor was his opposition to the 1797 election to the Society of the architect
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During his last years Englefield's eyesight failed. He never married, and died at his house in Tilney Street, London, the baronetcy becoming extinct. He is buried in
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and acted as its secretary for fourteen years. Besides his antiquarian studies, which he published in contributions to
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Description of the Principal Beauties, Antiquities and Geological Phenomena of the Isle of Wight
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Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002
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near Reading, had in 1728 succeeded to the title and the Engelfield estates at
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Letter to the Author of "The Review of the Case of the Protestant Dissenters"
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Observations on the Probable Consequences of the Demolition of London Bridge
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Description of a New Transit Instrument, Improved by Sir H. Englefield
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Antiquaries: The Discovery of the Past in Eighteenth-Century Britain
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Early water filtration device illustration by Englefield
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Index

Henry Charles Englefield
Englefield

Thomas Phillips
FRS
FRSE
FSA
antiquary
Englefield House
Reading, Berkshire
Sir Henry Englefield, 6th Baronet
Sir Charles Buck, 3rd Baronet
Whiteknights Park
Earley
Wootton Bassett
Wiltshire

Fellow of the Royal Society
Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries
George Townshend, Earl of Leicester
James Wyatt
Earl of Aberdeen
Durham
Gloucester
Exeter

Lincoln Castle
Dilettanti Society
Archaeologia
Society of Arts

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