Dr Sir Hans Sloane PRS 1st Baronet
(1660-1753)
benefactor of the British Museum, physician, 1st Baronet Sloane of Chelsea (from 1716), and 13th President of the Royal Society (1727-1741)
Died aged c. 93
Wikidata WikipediaSir Hans Sloane, 1st Baronet PRS (16 April 1660 – 11 January 1753), was an Anglo-Irish physician, naturalist, and collector, with a collection of 71,000 items which he bequeathed to the British nation, thus providing the foundation of the British Museum, the British Library, and the Natural History Museum, London. He was elected to the Royal Society at the age of 24. Sloane travelled to the Caribbean in 1687 and documented his travels and findings with extensive publications years later. Sloane was a renowned medical doctor among the aristocracy, and was elected to the Royal College of Physicians at age 27. Though he is credited with the invention of chocolate milk, it is more likely that he learned the practice of adding milk to drinking chocolate while living and working in Jamaica. Streets and places were later named after him, including Hans Place, Hans Crescent, and Sloane Square in and around Chelsea, London – the area of his final residence – and also Sir Hans Sloane Square in his birthplace in Northern Ireland, Killyleagh.
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Commemorated on 2 plaques
Sir Hans Sloane 1660-1753 Physician, benefactor of the British Museum lived here 1695-1742
4 Bloomsbury Place, Camden, WC1, London, United Kingdom where they lived (1695-1742)
King Henry VIII’s Manor House stood here until 1753 when it was demolished after the death of its last occupant, Sir Hans Sloane. Nos. 19 to 26 Cheyne Walk were built on its site in 1759-65. The old manor house garden still lies beyond the end wall of Cheyne Mews and contains some mulberry trees said to have been planted by Queen Elizabeth I.
23 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, SW3, London, United Kingdom where they lived -1753)