John Covel

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John Covel (1638 - 19 December 1722) was a clergyman and scientist who became Master of Christ's College, Cambridge and vice-chancellor of the University.^[1]

In 1670 he went to Constantinople as Chaplin to the Levant company. For a time he was in sole charge of the embassy there. He travelled widely in Asia Minor and described the buildings and plants which he saw. After his return and a period as Chaplin to the Princess of Orange in The Hague, he was elected Master of Christ's in 1678. In his later years he developed the study of fossils.^[2]

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1. ^ Elisabeth Leedham-Green, ‘Covel , John (1638–1722)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 23 Dec 2007
2. ^ Christ's College Magazine No 154, Easter term 1942