Argentine, John (c. 1443–1508), physician and college head, was the most eminent of the first generation of Italian-trained doctors to return to a medical and academic career in England. He was born at Bottisham in Cambridgeshire, into a well-connected family; he entered Eton College...
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Argentine, John (c. 1443–1508), physician and college head
Peter Murray Jones
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Arundell, John (c. 1400–1477), physician and bishop of Chichester
Christopher Whittick
Arundell, John (c. 1400–1477), physician and bishop of Chichester, was a Cornishman, almost certainly of the Lanherne branch of the family, whose arms he bore. The likelihood is that he was the son of Sir John Arundell (d. 1433), landowner, and his wife, ...
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Bald (fl. c. 900), supposed physician and medical writer
M. L. Cameron
Bald (fl. c. 900), supposed physician and medical writer, was the owner and probable author of a work titled Læceboc (leechbook), a compilation in Old English of medical recipes and treatments. All that is known of Bald is to be found in the Latin verse colophon to the ...
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Barton, John (fl. 1417), physician and alleged heretic
Michael Wilks
Barton, John (fl. 1417), physician and alleged heretic, was the subject of a testimonial issued at Reading on 11 May 1417 by Archbishop Chichele, stating that John Barton, described as a doctor of the city of London, had purged himself in a provincial council held at ...
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Blysse, John (d. 1530), physician
[Anon.]
revised by Patrick Wallis
Blysse, John (d. 1530), physician, was born in the diocese of Bath and Wells. He graduated BA at Oxford in June 1507 and was elected a probationary fellow of Merton College in 1509, having the character of 'an excellent disputant in philosophy...
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Bray, John (d. 1381?), physician and botanist
John Harvey
Bray, John (d. 1381
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Bredon, Simon (d. 1372), physician and astronomer
George Molland
Bredon, Simon (d. 1372), physician and astronomer, came from Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, and by 1330 was a fellow of Merton College, Oxford, where he remained probably until 1348. In 1333 he visited the papal court at Avignon in the course of university administration. Academically he was notable in undertaking higher studies in both theology and medicine, and drew on both subjects in his later career. From 1348 he held a variety of ecclesiastical preferments. By 1355 he was in the service of ...
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Caerleon, Lewis (d. in or after 1495), physician and astronomer
Keith Snedegar
Caerleon, Lewis (d. in or after 1495), physician and astronomer, was a native of Wales. He is first recorded in 1465–6, when he was admitted bachelor of medicine of Cambridge University. The university fined him 20s. in 1466 for not fulfilling his commitment to lecture in medicine. According to a seventeenth-century biography of ...
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Colnet, Nicholas (d. 1420), physician
Linda Ehrsam Voigts
Colnet, Nicholas (d. 1420), physician, was of obscure origins, and all that is known of his early career is that his first studies at Oxford were provided, as to a scholar of the founder's kin, by Merton College from 1391. He became fellow of ...
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Denman, Thomas (d. 1500/01), physician
Carole Rawcliffe
Denman, Thomas (d. 1500/01), physician, was of obscure origins. Although his brother, William, became a monk of Lenton Abbey, Nottinghamshire, references in Thomas's will of 1500 to property in Easton, and bequests to religious houses in the nearby town of Stamford, might suggest that he came from ...
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English, William (fl. 1219–1231), physician and astronomer physician
Danielle Jacquart
English, William (fl. 1219–1231), physician and astronomer, is known only through references in his own works or in the manuscripts in which those works are found. He says of himself that he was born in England and settled at Marseilles, and describes himself as a practising physician, learned in astronomy. There is a question as to whether he knew Arabic. Among the works doubtfully attributed to him is the translation, from Arabic, of a short treatise in the tradition of ...
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Evesham, Hugh of (d. 1287), physician and cardinal
Faye Getz
Evesham, Hugh of (d. 1287), physician and cardinal, was born, and possibly educated, at Evesham, before first making his name at Oxford University, where he distinguished himself as a peacemaker in various university disputes between 1267 and 1274. However, he sided with the Dominicans against the Franciscans in their battle over evangelical poverty in 1269. In 1275 he was granted licence, as archdeacon of ...
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Exeter [Newetone], William (d. 1359), physician and theologian author
Jeremy Catto
Exeter [Newetone], William (d. 1359), physician and theologian, probably came from Newton Abbot, Devon, but nothing is known of him before 28 July 1318, when he was provided to the rectory of Stoke in Teignhead, Devon, at the request of Walter Stapeldon, bishop of ...
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Faceby, John (d. in or after 1460), physician
Anthony Gross
Faceby, John (d. in or after 1460), physician, is principally known for his treatment of Henry VI during his insanity and for his involvement in the royal alchemical inquiry of 1456, which was designed to find a cure for the king's ills. Nothing definite is known of ...
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Farnham, Nicholas of (d. 1257), royal doctor and bishop of Durham
R. M. Franklin
Farnham, Nicholas of (d. 1257), royal doctor and bishop of Durham, was a native of the south of England, probably of Farnham in Surrey. It is likely that he was born in the reign of Henry II, and before 1200 had started his academic career at ...
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Gaddesden, John (d. 1348/9), physician
Martha Carlin
Gaddesden, John (d. 1348/9), physician, took his name from Little or Great Gaddesden, Hertfordshire. He was later enrolled in the confraternity of nearby St Albans Abbey, in order to secure the benefits of spiritual fellowship with the monks; perhaps he had formerly attended the school there. The fact that he held an ...
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Garencières, Theophilus (1610–c. 1680)
Maker: William Dolle
Theophilus Garencières (1610–c. 1680) by William Dolle, pubd 1672 © National Portrait Gallery, London
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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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Guercy, Balthasar (d. 1557), surgeon and physician
John Bennell
Guercy, Balthasar (d. 1557), surgeon and physician, was an Italian (de Guercis), born in Il Boscho in the duchy of Milan, though nothing is known of his parentage or birth. A belief that he was 'once of Canterbury' (...
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Hobbes, William (d. 1488), physician and surgeon
Carole Rawcliffe
Hobbes, William (d. 1488), physician and surgeon, was the son and heir of John Hobbes (d. 1462), surgeon, of Fetter Lane, London; his mother was probably John's widow, Juliana. As a member of the mystery of surgeons of London, who himself owned many books, it is not surprising that ...
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