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    Joseph Planta FRS (21 February 1744 – 3 December 1827), aka Joseph von Planta, the Principal Librarian (i.e. Director) of the British Museum for the first...
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  • Joseph Planta could refer to: Joseph Planta (librarian) (1744–1827), British librarian Joseph Planta (politician) (1787–1847), British politician, and...
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  • of Andrew Planta Joseph Planta (librarian) (1744–1827), Swiss Principal Librarian of the British Museum, son of Andrew Planta Frederica Planta (1750–1778)...
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  • Joseph Planta, also known as Andreas Joseph von Planta (1717–1773), was a Swiss Reformed pastor who emigrated to England, where he became librarian at...
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  • Hastings, England. Planta's father, also named Joseph Planta (1744–1827), moved from Switzerland to England and became the Principal Librarian of the British...
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    Lankan politician Joseph Yuvaraj Pillay (born 1934), Singaporean civil servant Joseph Planta (1787–1847), English politician Joseph "Beppo" Schmid (1901–1956)...
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  • Knight 1772–1776: Matthew Maty 1776–1799: Charles Morton 1799–1827: Joseph Planta 1827–1856: Sir Henry Ellis 1856–1866: Sir Anthony Panizzi 1866–1873:...
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  • the daughter of pastor Andreas Planta, assistant librarian at the British Museum, and the sister of librarian Joseph Planta. After her unexpected early death...
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  • her positions. Their only brother, Joseph Planta, served as principal librarian at the British Museum. The Plantas were multilingual. At home, they spoke...
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    Planta family (Upper Engadin) Thomas Planta, bishop of Chur (r. 1549–1565) Alfred von Planta (1857–1922) British librarian and diplomat Joseph Planta...
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  • Andreas Planta who became assistant librarian at the British Museum in 1758, and the sister of Joseph Planta, who became principal librarian. She worked...
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    elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in May 1811. In 1827 Joseph Planta, the principal librarian, died, and Ellis, who had for nine years taken on much of...
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    Smith, the librarian of Sir John Cotton, Sir Robert Cotton's grandson. The library's official catalogue was published in 1802 by Joseph Planta, which remained...
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  • members with a quorum of five. The committee was supported by clerks, librarians and lawyers, including. The committee had its first meeting on 19 February...
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    Philip V accelerated the trend towards greater centralisation; the Nueva Planta decrees of 1707 abolished the fueros and Aragonese political structures...
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    Spanish politician Albert Planchon (1905–1989), French sports shooter Albert Planta (1868–1952), Canadian senator and financial agent Albert Platts (1883–1969)...
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    taxonomy. Species Plantarum (or, more fully, Species Plantarum, exhibentes plantas rite cognitas, ad genera relatas, cum differentiis specificis, nominibus...
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  • of Blackstone Group; 20th United States Secretary of Commerce Renaud de Planta (M.B.A. 1987) – the sole senior partner of the Pictet Group, a 215-year-old...
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  • of Galway. Following this, Philip V of Spain promulgates the first Nueva Planta decrees, bringing the Kingdoms of Valencia and Aragon under the laws of...
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  • Empire and the Dutch Republic. November 28 – The application of the Nueva Planta decrees, in Majorca and the other Balearic Islands (formerly under the Crown...
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  • 11 May 1778 Andrew Joseph Planta 15 March 1770 – 1773 Joseph Planta 17 February 1774 22 February 1744 – 3 December 1827 (Librarian) Harry Hemley Plaskett...
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    lesbianism did not exist. Lesbians would often use code words, such as librarian or bookseller (Spanish: libreras), to identify one another. Younger lesbians...
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