Raper, Matthew

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9.5.1790 Raper at Paradise's and 23.5.1790 there.

Matthew Raper of Wendover Dean, Bucks died 26.11.1826 in 88th year at his house in Wimpole St (newspapers) Fellow of Royal Society and vice-president of Antiquarian Society. His wife died 3.4.1824 aged 79. 1787 translated Grellman's History of the Gypsies. Listed as a merchant in Old Street in 1790/1 directories. In his will (PCC 1827) he mentioned his sisters Sarah and Jane and his cousins, and left legacies to Samuel Rogers the poet and his sister Sarah. Son of William R and heir to his uncle Matthew R (PCC 1779) who was a friend of Thomas Rogers (Samuel's father) and left his Greek books to Dr Samuel Horsley and his cello and violin to Alexander Aubert. 1785 of Hertford St, Mayfair, Boyle's 1792 of 9 Stratford Place, Old Street. And see Jack Fruchtman's piece on Benjamin Franklin in Unrespectable Radicals? (2008) page 13