Davyd William Nash

Davyd William Nash FRS
File:Nash, Davyd William.jpg
Born	1810
Died	1876
Residence	Cheltenham [1862]
Society Membership membership ESL, AI Ordinary Fellow - life compounder left 1876 deceased elected_ESL 1848.12.14 elected_AI 1848 1868 (in 1872 list) societies Royal Society of Literature

Notes

Office Notes

ESL Council 1849-50 Member
ESL Council 1850-51 Member
ESL Council 1865-66 Member
ESL Council 1866-67 Member
ESL Council 1867-68 Hon. Secretary
ESL Council 1868-69 Hon. Secretary [resigns Nov. 1868]

House Notes

1850.03.22 'That a committee consisting of Mr Dunn, Mr Greenough, Dr R.G. Latham, Thomas Hodgkin MD, Mr Nash and Sir C. Malcolm, with power to add to the number, be appointed for the purpose of considering the means of improving the prospects of the Society’
Committee to draw up an address to the Society Jun 1850
1876.11.14 death noted

Notes From Elsewhere

same as D.W. ?
[Wiki] Presumably David (Dafyd) William Nash, barrister and author. Secretary of the ESL after Francis Galton.
[Imperial College London]:
Letter from T H Huxley to NASH, Davyd William (1810-1876), 17 November 1868
Sent from London
The Ethnological Society needs more vitality and attention by the officers; Nash has not attended a single Council Meeting during Huxley's presidency, and such a state of affairs cannot continue
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

Letter to T H Huxley from NASH, Davyd William (1810-1876), 22 November 1868
Sent from Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
Tenders his resignation as joint Secretary of Ethnological Society as being unable to perform any duties; has continued in office at the special request of Crawfurd, the late President