Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Silvester, (Sir) John (Bart.)

by Joseph Foster

Silvester, (Sir) John (Bart.), s. John, of St. Peter's, Cornhill, London, D.Med. (knight). St. John's Coll., matric. 26 June, 1764, aged 18; scholar 1764, B.C.L. 1771, created D.C.L. 3 June, 1818, bar.-at-law, Middle Temple, 1771, a bencher 1803, common serjeant city of London 1790-1803, and recorder 1803-22, F.R.S. 1780, & F.S.A. 1784, created a baronet 20 May, 1815, died s.p. 30 March, 1822. See Robinson, 113.