Background
He was born in 1772 at South Warnborough, Hampshire, where his father was rector.
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Philip Duncan
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He was educated at Winchester College (where he afterwards founded the Duncan Prizes), and at New College, Oxford, of which he became a fellow in 1792. He graduated Bachelor of Arts 1794, Master of Arts He was called to the bar in 1796, and for a few years attended the home and the western circuits.
Career
From 1801 until his death, he lived much at Bath, and promoted many local scientific and philanthropic schemes. He was elected president of the Bath United Hospital in 1841. Philip Duncan increased the Ashmolean zoological collections, and himself gave many donations.
He also presented to the university with casts of antique statues and various models.
Duncan advocated the claims of physical science and mathematics to a prominent place in Oxford studies. He was instrumental in establishing at Oxford, as also at Bath, a savings bank and a society for the suppression of mendacity.
He resigned his keepership in 1855, and was then given the honorary degree of Doctorate.C.L.
Duncan died on 12 November 1863, at Westfield Lodge, his home, near Bath, aged 91. He was a man of simple habits and refined tastes.
I question whether any two men with the same means have ever done the same amount of good.
