Cornelius Vermuyden ( 1626 - 1693 )

Birth: 1626 Baptism: 19 March 1627 Death: 1693 Education: Gray's Inn (admitted 1650) Career: Shareholder in the Bedford Level Company, Conservator (1663); Shareholder in the Royal African Company; left England sometime before the Restoration but later returned Membership: Original Fellow Election Date: 20/05/1663 Date of ejection/withdrawal: 29/10/1666 (for non-payment of arrears) Committee appointments include: Committee of the Histories of Trades (1664) Other RSActivity: Proposed on 1 April 1661 Experimented with poisonous arrows (1661) Conducted experiments with sympathetic powder (1661).