Arnott, Neil (1788–1874), physician and public health reformer, the son of William Arnott, a manufacturer and farmer, and his wife, Ann Maclean, was born at Arbroath in Forfarshire, Scotland, on 15 May 1788. A Roman Catholic by upbringing, he was educated by his mother, at the parish school of ...
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Arnott, Neil (1788–1874), physician and public health reformer
Bill Luckin
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Boorde, Andrew (c. 1490–1549), physician and author
Elizabeth Lane Furdell
Boorde, Andrew (c. 1490–1549), physician and author, was born at Borde Hill near Cuckfield, Sussex. Like many others in the field of healing he began his career as a monk. He was brought up at Oxford and admitted under age, in 1515, into the ...
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Fitzpatrick, Sir Jeremiah (c. 1740–1810), physician and campaigner for prison reform
James Kelly
Fitzpatrick, Sir Jeremiah (c. 1740–1810), physician and campaigner for prison reform, was born in Kilbeggan, co. Westmeath. His background and early years are shrouded in obscurity, but circumstantial evidence points to the conclusion that his parents, of whom nothing is known, were Catholic and that they were comfortably off. He received a medical education abroad and though his graduating institution has not been identified ...
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Ingen-Housz [Ingenhousz], Jan (1730–1799), physician and natural philosopher
Charles Creighton
revised by Patricia Fara
Ingen-Housz [Ingenhousz], Jan (1730–1799), physician and natural philosopher, was born on 8 December 1730 at Breda, the Netherlands, the second son of Arnoldus Ingen-Housz, an affluent leather merchant, and his wife, Maria Beckers. After qualifying as a physician at the University of Louvain...
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Lopez [Lopes], Roderigo [Ruy, Roger] (c. 1517–1594), physician and alleged conspirator
Edgar Samuel
Lopez [Lopes], Roderigo [Ruy, Roger] (c. 1517–1594), physician and alleged conspirator, was born in Portugal, where his father, António Lopes, was physician to João III. A New Christian, or son of a Jew baptized by force in 1497, he studied at the University of Coimbra...
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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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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...
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Polidori, John William (1795–1821), physician and writer
Nigel Leask
Polidori, John William (1795–1821), physician and writer, was born in London on 7 September 1795, the eldest son of eight children born to the immigrant Italian writer Gaetano Polidori (1764–1853) and his English wife, Anna Maria Pierce (d. 1853). Gaetano had served as secretary to the tragedian ...
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Sarmento, Jacob de Castro [formerly Henrique de Castro] (1692?–1762), physician and scientific writer
Edgar Samuel
Sarmento, Jacob de Castro [formerly Henrique de Castro] (1692
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Sibbald, Sir Robert (1641–1722), physician and geographer
Charles W. J. Withers
Sibbald, Sir Robert (1641–1722), physician and geographer, was born on 15 April 1641 in Blackfriars Wynd off Edinburgh's High Street, the fifth child and third son of David Sibbald (1589–1660), of Rankeillour, Fife, keeper of the great seal of Scotland, and his wife, ...
