P. B. Duncan [facsimile signature] A.M. New Coll Oxford.
W. Smith pinxt. M. Gauci. Lith. Printed by P. Gauci, 9, North Crest. Bedfd. Sqe. [n.d. c.1820.] Lithograph. 397 x 287mm. Philip Duncan (1772-1863) was for many years (1826-1855) Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. In addition to promoting physical science and mathematics to a position of academic respectability at Oxford, he was largely responsible for establishing, at both Oxford and Bath, a savings bank and a society for the suppression of mendicity.
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