Philip Bury Duncan

Philip Bury Duncan (1772-1863) ya kasance mai kula da Gidan kayan gargajiya na Ashmolean a Jami'ar Oxford . 

 Rayuwa 
An haifi Philip Duncan a shekara ta 1772 a Kudancin Warnborough, Hampshire, Ingila, inda mahaifinsa ya kasance shugaban. Ya yi karatu a Kwalejin Winchester (inda daga baya ya kafa Duncan Prizes), kuma a New College, Oxford, wanda ya zama Fellow a shekara ta 1792. Ya kammala karatu tare da digiri na BA a shekara ta 1794 da kuma digiri na MA a shekara ta 1788. Daga cikin abokan makaranta da kwaleji waɗanda ya ci gaba da hulɗa da su sune Archbishop William Howley, Bishop Richard Mant, da Sydney Smith

An kira Duncan zuwa mashaya a shekara ta 1796, kuma na 'yan shekaru ya halarci gida da kuma yammacin da'irori. Daga 1801 har zuwa mutuwarsa, ya zauna da yawa a Bath kuma ya inganta yawancin tsarin kimiyya da na agaji. An zabe shi shugaban Asibitin Bath United a shekara ta 1841. 

A cikin 1826, an sanya Philip Duncan mai kula da Gidan Tarihi na Ashmolean, ya maye gurbin ɗan'uwansa, John Shute Duncan, marubucin Hints to the Bearers of Walking Sticks and Umbrella, wanda ba a san shi ba, 3rd edition 1809; Botano Theology, 1825; da Analogies of Organised Beings, 1831. Ya kara tarin dabbobi na Ashmolean, kuma shi da kansa ya ba da gudummawa da yawa. Ya kuma gabatar da Jami'ar Oxford tare da siffofi na dā da samfuran daban-daban. Duncan ya ba da shawarar da'awar kimiyyar jiki da lissafi zuwa wani matsayi na musamman a cikin karatun Oxford. Ya taimaka wajen kafa a Oxford, da kuma a Bath, bankin ajiya da al'umma don hana karya. Ya yi murabus daga mukaminsa a Gidan Tarihi na Ashmolean a 1855 sannan aka ba shi digiri na girmamawa na DCL. Lokacinsa a Gidan Tarihi na Ashmolean ya ga canje-canje masu mahimmanci a cikin nune-nunen Tarihin halitta, bisa ga " tauhidin halitta", kamar yadda William Paley (1743-1805), Archdeacon na Carlisle ya gabatar.

 Kyauta 
Hoton Philip Bury Shute na William Smith (mai aiki 1813-1859) yana cikin tarin Gidan Tarihi na Ashmolean .  Tarihin Kwalejin Magdalen sun haɗa da wasiƙu daga Philip Bury Duncan da ɗan'uwansa John Shute Duncan . 

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