Francis Smethwick^[1]

1619 - 1682  (62 years)

• Name	Francis Smethwick
  Born	9 Jan 1619	Corbites Court, London, UK   [2]
  Christened	23 Apr 1620	Brereton-cum-Smethwick, Cheshire, UK
  Gender	Male
  Died	1682
  Person ID	I3326	Smithwick Family Tree
  Last Modified	7 Mar 2019

  
  

  Father	Thomas Smethwick,   b. Abt 1590, Tutbury, Staffordshire, UK ,   d. 1641-1642  (Age 52 years)
  Mother	Mary Lawrence,   b. Abt 1590, Tutsham Hall, Maidstone, Kent, UK
  Family ID	F1114	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Oxford MTS 1627-1628; MA 2 Dec 1642; FRS (Fellow of the Royal Society) 1667 Pupil of William Oughtred; amateur optical instrument maker; worked with Hooke; made a microscope, a telescope, and some burning glasses; F.R.S. in 1667.

  
  

• Sources

  [S327] Visitation of Cheshire, 1613, Armytage and Rylands, (The Record Society, 1909), https://archive.org/stream/recordsociety58recouoft#page/210/mode/2up. [S339] A Biographical Register of St. John's College, Oxford, 1555-1660, Andrew Hegarty, (Boydell & Brewer Ltd, 2011), https://books.google.com/books?id=jhsIycOY6N8C&lpg=PA434&ots=Flr8IVJEYv&pg=PA434#v=onepage.