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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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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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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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 ...
