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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Black, Joseph (1728–1799), chemist and physician
R. G. W. Anderson
Black, Joseph (1728–1799), chemist and physician, was born on 16 April 1728 in Bordeaux, the sixth of twelve children of John Black, an Ulsterman who was a factor in the wine trade, and his wife, Margaret Gordon (d. 1747). Black's brothers all became manufacturers or tradesmen of various kinds and all were unsuccessful in business. ...
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Bright, Richard (1789–1858), physician
Diana Berry
Bright, Richard (1789–1858), physician, was born at 29 Queen Square, Bristol, on 28 September 1789, the third son of dissenters Richard Bright (1754–1840) and his wife, Sarah, née Heywood (d. 1827). Wealthy merchants and bankers, the family were descended from the Brights...
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Butts, Sir William (c. 1485–1545), physician
C. T. Martin
revised by Rachel E. Davies
Butts, Sir William (c. 1485–1545), physician, was born in Norwich, the son of John Butts, auditor of crown revenues, and his wife, Elizabeth. He was educated at Gonville Hall, Cambridge, becoming BA in 1507, MA in 1509, and MD in 1518. In the following year he applied for incorporation into the ...
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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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Craig, John (d. 1655), physician
John Henry
Craig, John (d. 1655), physician, was the third son of the eminent Scottish lawyer Thomas Craig (1538?–1608), and his wife, Helen Heriot of Lymphoy. Sir Lewis Craig of Riccarton, Lord Wrightslands, was his older brother. He matriculated as a medical student at the ...
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Culpeper, Nicholas (1616–1654), physician and astrologer
Patrick Curry
Culpeper, Nicholas (1616–1654), physician and astrologer, the son of Nicholas Culpeper and his wife, Mary Attersole, was born a little after noon on 18 October 1616, probably at Ockley, Surrey, where he was baptized in St Margaret's Church on 24 October. His father, the rector of ...
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Dale, Samuel (bap. 1659, d. 1739), apothecary and physician
G. S. Boulger
revised by Juanita Burnby
Dale, Samuel (bap. 1659, d. 1739), apothecary and physician, son of North Dale (bap. 1618), silk-thrower, and his wife, Christian, was baptized on 15 August 1659 at St Olave's, Hart Street, London. Dale was apprenticed for eight years to Thomas Wells, a ...
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Garencières, Theophilus (1610–c. 1680), physician
Norman Moore
revised by Michael Bevan
Garencières, Theophilus (1610–c. 1680), physician, was born in Paris. After mastering the primer he was made to read The Prophecies of Nostradamus, and retained a love for them throughout his life. He graduated MD at Caen in Normandy in 1636. Garencières came to ...
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Gilpin, Richard (1625–1700), nonconformist minister and physician
Jonathan H. Westaway
Gilpin, Richard (1625–1700), nonconformist minister and physician, was born in October 1625 in Strickland Ketel township, Westmorland, and baptized on 23 October in the parish church at Kendal, the second son of Isaac Gilpin (d. in or after 1649) of Strickland and his wife, ...
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Goodall, Charles (c. 1642–1712), physician
Harold J. Cook
Goodall, Charles (c. 1642–1712), physician, the son of Thomas Goodall of Earl Stonham, Suffolk, matriculated as a pensioner at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, on 20 January 1659, but, perhaps because of problems at the Restoration, did not complete his BA or MA. Instead he took up medicine, obtaining a university licence to practise surgery in 1665. The ...
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Grew, Nehemiah (bap. 1641, d. 1712), botanist and physician
Michael Hunter
Grew, Nehemiah (bap. 1641, d. 1712), botanist and physician, was the son of Obadiah Grew (bap. 1607, d. 1689) and his wife, Ellen or Helen, née Vicars (d. 1687). By her first marriage Ellen Grew had two sons, Henry Sampson, ejected minister and historian of dissent, and ...
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Huxham, John (c. 1692–1768), physician
Norman Moore
revised by Richard Hankins
Huxham, John (c. 1692–1768), physician, was born at Harberton, Devon, the son of a butcher. Orphaned early, he had as a guardian Thomas Edgerley, a nonconformist minister, who placed him at the school of Isaac Gilling, a Presbyterian minister in Newton Abbot. Later ...
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Jaeger, Gustav (1832–1917), physician, zoologist, and dress reformer
Anthea Jarvis
Jaeger, Gustav (1832–1917), physician, zoologist, and dress reformer, was born on 23 June 1832 at Bürg am Kocher, now part of the town of Neuenstadt, Germany, the younger son of Karl Friedrich Jaeger (1794–1842), priest and historian of Schwabia, and his wife, Ulrike (1795–1881)...
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Mayerne, Sir Theodore Turquet de (1573–1655), physician
Hugh Trevor-Roper
Mayerne, Sir Theodore Turquet de (1573–1655), physician, the eldest son of Louis Turquet and his wife, Louise, daughter of Antoine le Maçon, treasurer-at-war to François I and Henri II of France, was born at Geneva on 28 September 1573. He was christened Théodore...
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Mead, Richard (1673–1754), physician and collector of books and art
Anita Guerrini
Mead, Richard (1673–1754), physician and collector of books and art, was born at Worcester House, Stepney, Middlesex, on 11 August 1673, the eleventh child of thirteen of Matthew Meade (1628/9–1699), a nonconforming minister, and his wife, Elizabeth Walton (d. 1707). Matthew Meade...
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Misaubin, Jean (1673–1734), physician
Norman Moore
revised by Michael Bevan
Misaubin, Jean (1673–1734), physician, was born in Mussidan, France, and is said to have graduated MD at the University of Cahors on 7 July 1687. He was in Canterbury in 1697 but later settled in London, and on 25 June 1719 became a licentiate of the ...
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Pulteney, Richard (1730–1801), botanist and physician
I. D. Hughes
Pulteney, Richard (1730–1801), botanist and physician, was born on 17 February 1730 at Loughborough, Leicestershire, the sole survivor of the eleven children of Samuel Pulteney (1674–1754), a prosperous tailor, and Mary Tomlinson (1692–1759), a native of the nearby village of Hathern. The family belonged to a sect known as ...
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Roget, Peter Mark (1779–1869), physician and philologist
T. Jock Murray
Roget, Peter Mark (1779–1869), physician and philologist, was born in Broad Street, Soho, London, on 18 January 1779. He was the only son of John Roget (d. 1783), a native of Geneva and pastor of the French protestant church in Threadneedle Street, London...
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Wylie, Sir James, first baronet (1768–1854), physician
John B. Wilson
Wylie, Sir James, first baronet (1768–1854), physician, was born in Kincardine-on-Forth, Perthshire, on 13 November 1768, the second child of William Wylie (or Willie), a carrier, and Janet Meiklejohn. He studied medicine at Edinburgh for a number of years, but was awarded his MD by ...
