John Frere was an English antiquary and a pioneering discoverer of Old Stone Age or Palaeolithic tools in association with large extinct animals at Hoxne, Suffolk in 1797. Frere was born in Roydon Hall, Norfolk. In 1766, Frere received his MA from Gonville and Caius College, where he was Second Wrangler and was elected to a fellowship. He subsequently held several political offices, and was a Member of Parliament from 1799 to 1802.

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  • John Frere was an English antiquary and a pioneering discoverer of Old Stone Age or Palaeolithic tools in association with large extinct animals at Hoxne, Suffolk in 1797. Frere was born in Roydon Hall, Norfolk. In 1766, Frere received his MA from Gonville and Caius College, where he was Second Wrangler and was elected to a fellowship. He subsequently held several political offices, and was a Member of Parliament from 1799 to 1802. An interest in the past, instigated by observing worked stone tools in a clay mining pit, led him to become a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and the Royal Society and to conduct excavations at Diss, near his home. According to paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey, he wrote a letter to the Society of Antiquaries about flint blades and large bones of extinct animals that he had found at a depth of approximately twelve feet (four meters) in a hole that had been dug by local bricklayers, and he described them as ... weapons of war, fabricated by a people who had not the use of metals... The situation in which these weapons were found may tempt us to refer them to a very remote period indeed, even beyond that of the present world... The Society published the letter in 1800, but his interpretation was so radical by the standards of his day that it was overlooked for six decades. Mary Leakey was a direct descendant of John Frere on her mother's side. He married Jane Hookham on June 12, 1768; John Hookham Frere was their son.
  • John Frere va ser un arqueòleg anglès de caràcter pioner. Va néixer a Roydon Hall, Norfolk. Interessat pels temps antics va esdevenir membre de la Royal Society on va informar el 1797 de la troballa, dins d'una mina a Hoxne, Suffolk d'artefactes de pedra fets per l'home en associació d'animals prehistòrics extingits. Aquesta comunicació científica es considera decisiva en el camí que va portar al reconeixement de l'antiguitat de l'home sobre la terra i dels canvis en la fauna associada.
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  • John Hookham Frere
  • the English poet and diplomat
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  • John Frere was an English antiquary and a pioneering discoverer of Old Stone Age or Palaeolithic tools in association with large extinct animals at Hoxne, Suffolk in 1797. Frere was born in Roydon Hall, Norfolk. In 1766, Frere received his MA from Gonville and Caius College, where he was Second Wrangler and was elected to a fellowship. He subsequently held several political offices, and was a Member of Parliament from 1799 to 1802.
  • John Frere va ser un arqueòleg anglès de caràcter pioner. Va néixer a Roydon Hall, Norfolk. Interessat pels temps antics va esdevenir membre de la Royal Society on va informar el 1797 de la troballa, dins d'una mina a Hoxne, Suffolk d'artefactes de pedra fets per l'home en associació d'animals prehistòrics extingits. Aquesta comunicació científica es considera decisiva en el camí que va portar al reconeixement de l'antiguitat de l'home sobre la terra i dels canvis en la fauna associada.
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  • John Frere
  • John Frere
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