Seth Ward

He has been a benefactor of the Royal Society (of which he was one of the first members and institutors : the beginning of philosophical experiments was at Oxon, 1649, by Dr. Wilkins, Seth Ward, Ralph Bathurst, &c.). He also gave a noble pendulum clock to the Royal Society (which goes a week) to perpetuate the memory of his dear and learned friend, Mr. Laurence Rooke, who took his sickness of which he died by setting up so often for astronomical observations.