Sunderland, Charles Spencer, Earl of, 1674-1722

David Edwin Pingree, Professor and Professor of History of Mathematics and Classics at Brown University, was one of America's foremost historians of the exact sciences in antiquity. He attended Harvard University, where he earned his doctorate in 1960 with a dissertation on the transmission of Hellenistic astrology to India. A master of the "dead" languages, Pingree was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1975 and a MacArthur Fellowship in 1981, he was a member of the Society of Fellows at Harvard, the American Philosophical Society, and the Institute for Advanced Study; he was also A.D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University from 1995.

From the guide to the David Pingree Papers, 1950-1990, (American Philosophical Society)

Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland (1674-1722), British Whig statesman during the reigns of Queen Anne and George I. From 1706 to 1710, he served as secretary of state for the Southern Department.

From the description of Papers of Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland, 1704-1710 (bulk 1706-1710). (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 122499707