Bartlett, Josiah (1729–1795), physician and revolutionary politician in America, was born on 21 November 1729 in Amesbury, Massachusetts, the seventh and youngest child of Stephen Bartlett, a shoemaker, and his wife, Hannah Webster. Josiah had little schooling before being apprenticed to a relative, ...
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Bartlett, Josiah (1729–1795), physician and revolutionary politician in America
Dennis M. Conrad
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Cooke, Elisha (1678–1737), politician and physician in America
William Pencak
Cooke, Elisha (1678–1737), politician and physician in America, was born on 20 December 1678 in Boston, Massachusetts, the only son of Elisha Cooke (1637–1715), also a physician and a long-time leader of the puritan or anti-prerogative faction in Massachusetts, and Elizabeth (1651–1715), daughter of ...
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Finch, Sir John (1626–1682), physician and diplomat
Sarah Hutton
Finch, Sir John (1626–1682), physician and diplomat, was the fourth of the seven children, and the youngest son, of Sir Heneage Finch (1580–1631), and his first wife, Frances, daughter of Sir Edmund Bell. His mother died in 1627. His father, speaker of the ...
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Foster, Balthazar Walter, first Baron Ilkeston (1840–1913), physician and politician
John Davis
Foster, Balthazar Walter, first Baron Ilkeston (1840–1913), physician and politician, was born on 17 July 1840 in Cambridge, the son of Balthazar Foster (1813–1862) of Beaulieu, Hampshire, and his wife, Marian (d. 1898), daughter of J. Green of Cambridge. His parents moved to ...
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Jones, Noble Wimberly (c. 1723–1805), physician and revolutionary politician in America
Edward J. Cashin
Jones, Noble Wimberly (c. 1723–1805), physician and revolutionary politician in America, was born in Lambeth, Surrey, the eldest child of Noble Jones (1702–1775) and his wife, Sarah Hack (c.1703–c.1752). In 1733 he accompanied his parents and younger sister Mary...
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Lucas, Charles (1713–1771), politician and physician
Sean J. Murphy
Lucas, Charles (1713–1771), politician and physician, was born on 16 September 1713 in co. Clare, a younger son of Benjamin Lucas (d. c.1727), a gentleman farmer of Ballingaddy, and Mary Blood. His great-grandfather, Lieutenant-Colonel Benjamin Lucas, was a Cromwellian officer who had been granted lands in ...
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MacNeven, William James (1763–1841), physician and Irish nationalist
David A. Wilson
MacNeven, William James (1763–1841), physician and Irish nationalist, was born on 21 March 1763 at Ballynahowne, near Aughrim in co. Galway, the eldest of the four children of James MacNeven, owner of a small estate, and Rosa Dolphin. His parents were Gaelic-speaking Catholics; according to family tradition, their ancestors had owned large tracts of land in the north of ...
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Prem, Dhani Ram (1904–1979), medical practitioner and political activist
Ian Grosvenor
Prem, Dhani Ram (1904–1979), medical practitioner and political activist, was born in Aligarh, India, on 26 September 1904. He joined the national movement for Indian independence in 1920 and was imprisoned as a teenager for one year for sedition. Educated at Jamia Millia...
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Shebbeare, John (1709–1788), physician and political writer
M. John Cardwell
Shebbeare, John (1709–1788), physician and political writer, was the eldest son of an attorney and corn-factor of Bideford, Devon. Unfortunately very little is known of his family history, parents, and early career, although the Shebbeares had once been modest landowners in the south of the county....
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Staunton, Sir George Leonard, first baronet (1737–1801), physician and diplomatist
Stephen Wheeler
revised by Anne Bulley
Staunton, Sir George Leonard, first baronet (1737–1801), physician and diplomatist, was born at Cargin, co. Galway, on 10 April 1737, the only son and heir of George Staunton (1700–1780), landowner and colonel of militia, and his wife, Margaret (c.1700–1784), daughter of ...
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Warren, Joseph (1741–1775), physician and revolutionary politician in America
Paul David Nelson
Warren, Joseph (1741–1775), physician and revolutionary politician in America, was born on 30 May 1741 at Roxbury, Massachusetts, the eldest of four children of Joseph Warren (1695–1755), farmer, and his wife, Mary Stevens (b. 1712), daughter of Samuel Stevens of Roxbury and his wife, ...
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Williamson, Hugh (1735–1819), physician and revolutionary politician in America
William S. Powell
Williamson, Hugh (1735–1819), physician and revolutionary politician in America, was born in West Nottingham township, Chester county, Pennsylvania, on 5 December 1735. Both of his parents were Scots-Irish: his father, John Williamson (d. 1757), was a clothier who emigrated to America in 1730 from ...
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Winthrop, John (1606–1676), colonial governor and physician
Walter W. Woodward
Winthrop, John (1606–1676), colonial governor and physician, was born on 12 February 1606 at Groton Manor, Suffolk, the eldest son of John Winthrop (1588–1649), governor of Massachusetts, and his first wife, Mary (1584–1615), daughter of John Forth of Great Stambridge, Essex, and his wife, ...
