Akenside, Mark (1721–1770), poet and physician, was born on 9 November 1721 in Butcher Bank, St Nicholas, Newcastle upon Tyne, the sixth of seven children of Mark Akenside (b. 1676), butcher, and his wife, Mary (1685–1760), daughter of William Lumsden. He was baptized on 30 November in the nonconformist meeting-house which his parents attended in ...
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Akenside, Mark (1721–1770), poet and physician
Robin Dix
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Arbuthnot [Arbuthnott], John (bap. 1667, d. 1735), physician and satirist
Angus Ross
Arbuthnot [Arbuthnott], John (bap. 1667, d. 1735), physician and satirist, was baptized on 29 April 1667 at Arbuthnott, Kincardineshire, on the north-east Scottish coast, near Stonehaven, the eldest son of Alexander Arbuthnott (c.1636–1691), minister of Arbuthnott, and Margaret, daughter of John Lammie (or Lamy)...
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Cotton, Nathaniel (1705–1788), poet and physician
Leslie Ritchie
Cotton, Nathaniel (1705–1788), poet and physician, was born in London to Samuel Cotton, a Levant merchant. No record of his birth survives, although a Nathaniel Cotton, son of Samuel and Mary Cotton, was baptized on 12 March 1706 in Bull Lane Independent Chapel, Stepney...
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Dixon, Joshua (bap. 1743, d. 1825), physician and biographer
Thompson Cooper
revised by Marten Hutt
Dixon, Joshua (bap. 1743, d. 1825), physician and biographer, was baptized at St Nicholas's Church, Whitehaven, Cumberland, on 12 August 1743, the son of Joshua and Elizabeth Dixon. He graduated MD from the University of Edinburgh in 1768, and thereafter practised medicine in ...
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Downman, Hugh (1740–1809), physician and poet
Alick Cameron
Downman, Hugh (1740–1809), physician and poet, son of Hugh Downman (d. 1789), of Newton St Cyres, Exeter, and his wife, Anne, was born on 7 February 1740 at Alphington, near Exeter. He was educated at Exeter Free Grammar School and entered Balliol College, Oxford...
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Garth, Sir Samuel (1660/61–1719), physician and poet
Robert L. Martensen
Garth, Sir Samuel (1660/61–1719), physician and poet, was the eldest son of William Garth of Bolam, co. Durham. He was educated at Ingleton, near Staindrop, co. Durham, and in 1676 was admitted to Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he proceeded BA in 1679 and MA in 1684. On 4 September 1687 he matriculated in physic at ...
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Kenrick, Daniel (b. 1649/50), poet and physician
Nicholas Jagger
Kenrick, Daniel (b. 1649/50), poet and physician, the son of Samuel Kenrick (b. 1602/3), rector of St Mary de Crypt, Gloucester, was born in Gloucestershire, matriculated aged sixteen at Christ Church, Oxford, on 30 May 1666, took his BA in 1670, became MA in 1674, and was later vicar of ...
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Munk, William (1816–1898), physician and biographer
Norman Moore
revised by Patrick Wallis
Munk, William (1816–1898), physician and biographer, was born on 24 September 1816 at Battle, Sussex, the eldest of ten known children (four sons and six daughters) of William Munk (1792–1879), an ironmonger, and his first wife, Jane, née Kenward (1792–1838...
