Teddington, St Mary's Church 1899
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He was a straightforward and relatively simple man without any ambition for advancement. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1719, received the prestigious Copley Medal in 1739, and was elected to the French Academy in 1753. By the 1750s his fame had grown, and his celebrity status attracted visitors. Frederick, the Prince of Wales, who was personally interested in science, made visits, and later Hales became chaplain to the Princess Dowager of Wales for a time. He was scientifically active into his eighties, still considering subjects such as the intensity of salt in sea-water and whether salt water would cleanse the body more thoroughly than other water. He died in 1761 and was buried at the church in Teddington. The memorial and tombstone are immediately in front on entry to the church today. The Princess Dowager funded a monument to him in Westminster Abbey.
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