Sloane, Hans

has biography | a une biographie: Anglo-Irish physician, naturalist, collector, writer, and absentee Jamaican slave-owner, through his wife Elizabeth Langley Rose (the daughter of Folk Rose), during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Sloane spent time visiting in the Caribbean in 1687 and later recorded his experiences in the two volume work A Voyage to the Islands Madera, Barbados, Nieves, S. Christophers and Jamaica (1707; 1725). He also held investments in both the Royal African Company and the South Sea Company.

Sloane bequeathed more than 71,000 items to the United Kingdom upon his death, which provided the foundations for the British Museum (established in 1753), the British Library, and the Natural History Museum in London.
was born | est né: 16 April 1660
died in | est mort par: 11 January 1753
has nationality | a la nationalité: Kingdom of Ireland; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
has type | est de type: depicted
has association with | a une association avec: The British Museum; Natural History Museum; Royal African Company; South Sea Company

is referred to by | est référencé par: Wikipedia; Legacies of British Slavery; Art UK; National Portrait Gallery; The British Museum - Sir Hans Sloane; The British Museum - Sir Hans Sloane (collection list); Sloane Lab; British Library; Madge Dresser, 'Set in Stone? Statues and Slavery in London', History Workshop Journal, 64, 1 (2007) 162–199

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Items with "main figure depicted | personnage principal représenté: Sloane, Hans"
Statue of Hans Sloane, Duke of York Square
Statue of Hans Sloane, Killyleagh
Statue of Hans Sloane, Physic Garden

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Natural History Museum

Items with "was created by: Sloane, Hans"
The British Museum

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Royal African Company