Volume 1
Further correspondence of John Ray / edited by Robert W.T. Gunther.
- John Ray
- Date:
- 1928
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Further correspondence of John Ray / edited by Robert W.T. Gunther. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![The Life of Mr. Ray by Mr.. Dale of Braintree. On the 17th of January 1705, Died that great Father of the Botanick Science, Mr. John Ray, at his house in Black Notley in the County of Essex, in which Parish he was likewise born on the 29th of November 1628, being the son of one Roger Ray, by profession a blacksmith. Yet was not his Father’s fortune at so low an Ebb, but that he could afford this his Son liberal education, the first rudiments of which was at a Grammar School in Braintree-Church, under the tuition of one Mr. Love where he profitted so well that, on the 28th of June 1644, he was admitted into Catherine-Hall in Cambridge, where he continu’d about a year and three quarters, and then remov’d himself to Trinity-College,, of which he was admitted one of the Minor Fellows on the 8th of September 1649 ; and, about six months after, one of the Major Fellows. He was after that one of the Senior-Fellows of that College, but when admitted,, or how long he continued so, cannot be known, there being a chasm for many years in their books. Upon the Restoration in 1660 he return’d to be one of the- Major Fellows. In 1658 he first began to travel in search of plants,, and other Natural and Artificial Curiosities (those of Cambridgeshire being well known to him before), and from Cambridge rode to Chester, from whence he went, through part of Wales into Shrewsbury, and returned by Glocester. In 1661 he accompanied Mr. Willoughby and others into the North of England, and from Berwick they made a Tour into Scotland, and, having visited Edenburg, Sterling, Glascow, and other places of noter return'd into England by Carlile. The next Year they made a Western Tour, going from Cambridge to Chester and thro’ Wales into Corn- well, Devonshire, Dorsetshire, Hampshire, Wiltshire, and others, and return’d to London by Windsor. In the year 1663 [April 18]:, he travel’d with the](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31348361_0001_0032.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
