Francis Vernon ( c 1637 - 1677 )

Birth Place: Near Charing Cross, London, England Death Place: Persia Burial Place: Ispahan, Persia Research Field: Antiquities Education: Westminster School; Christ Church, Oxford; BA (1658), MA (1660) Career: Began his travels before he had taken his Master's degree, captured by pirates and sold; returned to Oxford (c 1660); accompanied the Earl of Carlisle, Ambassador-Extraordinary to Sweden (1668); Secretary to the Embassy at Paris, where he acted as medium of communication between men of science in England and France (1669-1671); travelled through Venice, Dalmatia, Greece, Turkey and Persia, where he was murdered by some Arabs in a quarrel over a penknife Membership: Fellow Election Date: 22/05/1672 Proposers: Henry Oldenburg.