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JOHN Whitehurst (17131788) was the eldest of the seven sons of Congleton clockmaker John Snr. He was apprenticed to his father in 1727 and set up in Derby in 1736, gaining freedom of the borough in 1737.
By the late 1750s he had befriended Erasmus Darwin FRS at Lichfield and Matthew Boulton in Birmingham, and by 1764 they had formed the nucleus of the Lunar Society - so called because it met on nights when there was a full moon providing most light to travel home by.See the full content of this document
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Portrait of a Genius
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