Sir Hans Sloane, 1st Baronet, PRS (16 April 1660 – 11 January 1753) was an Irish born British physician, naturalist and collector, notable for bequeathing his collection to the nation, thus providing the foundation of the British Museum. His name was later used for streets and places such as Hans Place, Hans Crescent and Sloane Square in London, and also to Sir Hans Sloane Square in his birthplace, Killyleagh.
Early life
Sloane was born on 16 April 1660 at Killyleagh in County Down, in the colonial Protestant Plantation of Ulster in the North of Ireland. He was the seventh son of Alexander Sloane (died 1666), agent for James Hamilton, second Viscount Claneboye and later first Earl of Clanbrassil. Sloane's family had migrated from Ayrshire in Scotland, but settled in the north of Ireland under James I. His father died when he was six years old.
As a youth, Sloane collected objects of natural history and other curiosities. This led him to the study of medicine, which he went to London, where he studied botany, materia medica, surgery and pharmacy. His collecting habits made him useful to John Ray and Robert Boyle. After four years in London he travelled through France, spending some time at Paris and Montpellier, and stayed long enough at the University of Orange-Nassau to take his MD degree there in 1683. He returned to London with a considerable collection of plants and other curiosities, of which the former were sent to Ray and utilised by him for his History of Plants.
Stanley was influential in the Isle of Wight, and found Sloane a parliamentary seat there, having him elected as Member for Newport (Isle of Wight) in 1768. From 1770 to 1782, he was also Stanley's deputy as Cofferer of the Household.
Sloane was later also MP for Southampton from 1780 to 1784, Christchurch from 1788 to 1796 and Lostwithiel, Cornwall, from 1796 to 1802, and a junior Lord of Trade from 1780 to 1782 (when he lost office with the fall of Lord North's government).
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In 2020, the British Museum moved a bust of HansSloane, the naturalist whose artefacts helped form the British Museum’s original collection, into a new case where it could explain his links to slavery.
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Plantations enriched 18th-century men such as HansSloane, “who didn’t plant a damned thing” but used his wealth to collect artefacts, animals and plants, and whose collection became the basis of the British Museum, founded in 1753 ...Noah Angell.
READ MORE ... Advertisement ... The mob isn’t interested ... Not so long ago, during the Black Lives Matter madness, the then director HartwigFischer moved the statue of the museum’s founder Sir HansSloane, because of his links to slavery and ‘colonialism’ ... .
The NHM's amber collection includes specimens acquired by scientist Sir HansSloane in the 18th century. His collection went on to form the bedrock of the British Museum, which was established after Sloane's death in 1753.
The NHM’s amber collection includes specimens acquired by scientist Sir HansSloane in the 18th century. His collection became the basis of the British Museum, which was established after Sloane’s death in 1753.
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‘We must never hide anything,’ declared the director of the British Museum, HartwigFischer, three years ago, when criticised for disrespecting its greatest founding genius, Sir HansSloane, because, ...
Cleburne Times-Review
03 Nov 2023
Cleburne Times-Review
03 Nov 2023