(Draft) This is the fourth chapter in the story of Henry Sully: his relocation in 1711 from Leiden, Netherlands, to Germany (1711-13) and Austria (1714-15), where he continued to earn…
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(Draft) This is the third chapter in the story of Henry Sully: his relocation from London in 1705/06 to the Netherlands, where he made a living repairing clocks and watches,…
(Draft – Panorama image above is from an engraving done in 1616. City looked considerably different after 1666 fire, and by the time Sully arrived in London in 1694. )…
This is the first chapter in the story of Henry Sully: his origins in Somerset County England, a description of his birthplace, and historical information about the Sully family name.
In Southern England in 1728, there were six consecutive days of fog in September. The winter there would be severe, with snow from mid-December to the end of January. In…
According to Julien Le Roy, writing in Règle artificielle du temps (1737), the Scotsman financier John Law (1671 – 1729) , who was playing an increasingly important role in the…
Source: Octobre 1728 – Mercure de France – Pages 2271-2274 – (translated by Robert St-Louis 2020) The death notice for English horologist Henry Sully (1680 – 1728) appeared in the…
In the biographical research I’ve done on Henry Sully (1679-1728), I identified the names of the children that he fathered. Four were with his first wife, in Holland. Then after…
One of my activities during the pandemic year of 2020 was to research and write an article that was submitted to the Antiquarian Horological Society in London, for publication in…
I’ve embarked some months ago on an ambitious project to document Henry Sully’s life in more detail than has ever been done before. From his origins in backwater Somerset, through…