Francis Maseres is known as attorney general of the Province of Quebec, judge, mathematician, historian, member of the Royal Society, and cursitor baron of the exchequer.
11 Facts About Francis Maseres
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Francis Maseres's parents were Magdalene du Pratt du Clareau and Peter Abraham Maseres, physician.
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The Maseres family were French Protestants who left France after the revocation of Edict of Nantes in 1685.
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Francis Maseres studied in Rev Richard Wooddeson's School in Kingston-upon-Thames, then entered Clare College, Cambridge, where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Arts.
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Francis Maseres entered the Inner Temple to study law in 1750, and was admitted to the bar in 1758.
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Francis Maseres was elected senior judge of sheriff's court in London in 1780.
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Francis Maseres involved himself in the movement for a constitutional reform of Quebec which resumed at full speed with the end of the American War of Independence in 1783, and which was concluded with the adoption of the Constitutional Act of 1791 by the British Parliament.
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Francis Maseres espoused the cause of Pierre du Calvet who intended to bring governor Frederick Haldimand before the courts for violating the British constitution.
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Francis Maseres was interested in mathematics, but he maintained a very conservative stance on the subject.
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Francis Maseres had written his Dissertation on the use of the negative sign in algebra in 1758.
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Francis Maseres died unmarried at his country house of Reigate on 19 May 1824, at the age of 93 years.