Pierre Coste ( 1668 - 1747 )

Birth: Uzes, France (27 October 1668) Death: Paris, France (24 January 1747) Career: Went to Geneva after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, then to Lausanne and Zurich, and finally Leyden where he met John Locke; worked as a translator and proof-corrector; went to England to stay with Locke (1697); translated Locke's 'Essay on human understanding'; Tutor to the sons of Edward Coste MP, of Chipley, Somerset; Tutor to John Hobart, and to Ashley Cooper, son of the 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury; went to Paris (c1735); returned to England after his wife's death Membership: Fellow Election Date: 25/11/1742.