Benjamin Donn

In 1768 he was elected librarian of the Bristol Library, and had fruitless plans converting it into a mathematical academy.

In addition to his school he gave a course of fourteen lectures in experimental philosophy to subscribers at one guinea each.

Towards the end of his life he was appointed master of mechanics to the king, on the death of Anthony Shepherd.

His contributions were accounts of eclipses observed at Bideford, and answers to most of the mathematical questions in it of the period.

Donn published in 1765 a map of Devonshire, from a survey he took himself, for which he received a premium of £100 from the Society of Arts.