Aikin, John (1747–1822), physician and writer, was born on 15 January 1747 at Kibworth Harcourt, Leicestershire, the younger child and only son of John Aikin (1713–1780), theologian, and his wife, Jane Jennings (1714–1785). He had an elder sister, who, under her married name of ...
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Aikin, John (1747–1822), physician and writer
Marilyn L. Brooks
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Cogan, Thomas (1736–1818), physician
Carolyn D. Williams
Cogan, Thomas (1736–1818), physician, was born on 8 February 1736 at Rowell (Rothwell), Northamptonshire, the second of the four children of John Cogan, surgeon and apothecary (1698–1784), who came from a Somerset family, and his first wife, Martha Morrice, of Lukenham, Leicestershire. Thomas's...
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Conolly, John (1794–1866), physician and alienist
Andrew Scull
Conolly, John (1794–1866), physician and alienist, was born at his grandmother's house in Market Rasen, Lincolnshire, on 27 May 1794, the second of three sons of Jonathon Conolly, an impecunious Anglo-Irish gentleman of no fixed pursuits, and of his wife, Dorothy Tennyson (1761–1816)...
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Parkes, Edmund Alexander (1819–1876), physician and hygienist
Mark Harrison
Parkes, Edmund Alexander (1819–1876), physician and hygienist, was born in Bloxham, Oxfordshire, on 29 March 1819, one of the sons of William (1788–1840) and Frances Parkes, née Byerley (1786–1842) [see under Byerley, Maria], of Warwick. His father was a textile manufacturer and his mother, the daughter of ...
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Smith, (Thomas) Southwood (1788–1861), Unitarian minister and physician
R. K. Webb
Smith, (Thomas) Southwood (1788–1861), Unitarian minister and physician, was born at Martock, Somerset, on 21 December 1788, the son of William Smith and Catherine Southwood, strict Baptists who early destined their son for the ministry. He studied with William Blake (1773–1821), who had just succeeded his father (of the same name) as minister of the Presbyterian chapel at ...
