This was in part due to the influence of Bentley, who is reported to have said that "Stillingfleet was too fine a gentleman to be buried within the walls of a college.

"[5][6] He went on to serve as a tutor to his relative William Windham at Felbrigg Hall for 13 years, in part to alleviate his financial struggles.

[7] Whilst in Switzerland, the duo organised a series of pantomimes using other tourists as cast helpers and audience.

During the summers the same group would set out on scientific explorations to find the undocumented glaciers of the Alps.

[5] In 1759, he published Miscellaneous Tracts, a botanical text which helped popularise the Linnaean system of classification.

In 1761 Stillingfleet was lauded for his contribution to William Hudson's Flora Anglica,[8] another botanical text.

James Boswell records that during a period of poor conversation when Stillingfleet was absent, it was remarked that they were "nowhere without blue stockings.

A monument was erected only after some years to his memory at the nearby St James's Church, Piccadilly by his nephew.