John Conduitt ( 1688 - 1737 )

Birth: March 1688 Death: Paddington, London (23 May 1737) Burial: Westminster Abbey, beside Sir Isaac Newton Education: Westminster School; Trinity College, Cambridge (matriculated 1705/6) Career: Travelled in Europe; Judge-advocate with the British forces in Portugal (1711); Captain of Dragoons (1712); Commissary of Stores of War and Provisions at Gibraltar (1713-1727); MP for Whitchurch (1721-1734); MP for Southampton (1734-1737); succeeded Sir Isaac Newton as Master of the Mint (1727-death) Membership: Fellow Election Date: 1/12/1718 Council: 1723, 1725-1728.