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Last Name Borlase

Given Name William

alt. Names W. B. ;

Marriage Anne (16xx-17xx)

Children min. 6

Year born 1695 in Pendeen

Year died 1772

Place of death Ludgvan

Father's occupation

Relatives William Copeland Borlase (1xxx-1xxx)

Education Exeter College, Oxford

Country of Activity United Kingdom

Worked for W. Borlase: Antiquities, historical and monumental, of the County of Cornwall, (1754) ; Observations on the Ancient and Present State of the Islands of Scilly (1756) ; Natural History of Cornwall (1758) ;

Patronage

Collaborators Alexander Pope ;

Techniques landscape, and natural drawing, painting, watercolour, and etching

Sample(s) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:William_Borlase?uselang=de ;

Archival sources http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Borlase ;

Published sources AKL 13 1996: 71 ; Nissen: Zoolog. Buchillustration 1969/78 ;

other Was a priest and natural scientist.

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