* SIR EDWARD WILMOT, BART., M.D., was descended from a family which was settled at Sutton-upon-Soar, in the county of Nottingham, soon after the Norman conquest, and removed thence into Derbyshire about the year 1539. He was the second son of Robert Wilmot, of Chaddesden, co. Derby, esquire, and was born 29th October, 1693. He was educated at St. John's college, Cambridge, of which house he was a fellow, and he proceeded A.B. 1714; A.M. 1718; M.D. 1725.* He then settled in London; was admitted a Candidate of the College of Physicians 30th September, 1725; and a Fellow 30th September, 1726. He was Censor in 1729 and 1741; and delivered the Harveian oration in 1735. He was admitted a fellow of the Royal Society 29th January, 1729-30. He married Sarah, the eldest daughter of Dr. Mead, and through his influence was appointed physician to St. Thomas's hospital. In April, 1731, he was appointed physician extraordinary to the queen, and soon afterwards physician in ordinary to her Majesty, and to Frederick prince of Wales. After the queen's death he was appointed physician in ordinary to king George II, and in 1740 physician-general to the forces. He was created a baronet 17th February, 1759, and on the accession of king George III was appointed one of his physicians in ordinary; but about this time he retired from practice and withdrew from London. He resided for some time at Nottingham; but finding it too cold for his age and constitution, he removed to Heringston, in the neighbourhood of Dorchester, co. Dorset, where he died 21st November, 1787, when he had more than completed his ninety-third year. He was buried in the parish church of Monkton, and is commemorated by the following inscription:- Sacred to the Memory of Sir Edward Wilmot, Bart., M.D. * He graduated as George Edward Wilmot. daughter of Richard Mead, M.D., by whom he left one son, Sir Robert Mead Wilmot, Baronet, He died at Heringston, in the county of Dorset, the 11th day of September, 1785, aged 83. prac JOHN BAMBER, M.D., a native of Kent, was bred a surgeon, and practised as such for many years in the city of London, and realised a large fortune. When of mature age, he withdrew from that department of tice, devoted himself to physic, and, having produced letters dimissory from the company of Barbers and Surgeons, dated 16th July, 1724, disfranchising him from that company, he was admitted a Licentiate of the College of Physicians 5th October, 1724. On the 12th April, 1725, he was created doctor of medicine at Cambridge, per literas Regias, as a member of Emmanuel college; and coming again before the Censors for examination, was admitted a Candidate 18th October, 1725; and a Fellow 30th September, 1726. He was Censor in 1730 and 1731; and dying 7th November, 1753, was buried in Barking church, Essex, where a monument, ornamented with a fine bust of the doctor in white marble, bears the following inscription : Hic jacet JOHANNES BAMBER, M.D. sociis charus, omnibus benevolus; occidit morte subitâ nec inopinatâ, Dr. Bamber acquired large estates in the county of Essex. His two daughters and co-heiresses married respectively Francis Walter Jones, surgeon, of Mincinglane, afterwards of Wyfields, Barking, in right of his wife and Margaret, Sir Crisp Gascoyne, knt., alderman of Vintry ward and lord mayor in 1752 (the first lord mayor who lived in the present Mansion-house). Sir Crisp Gascoyne died 28th December, 1761, and was buried at Barking, leaving with other children Bamber Gascoyne, a well-known political character in the last century. On his death in 1791 the Bamber estates descended, under Dr. Bamber's will, to a second Bamber Gascoyne, who cut off the entail, pulled down the house at Bifrons, and sold the site and the park. His daughter and heiress married the marquis of Salisbury, who took the name of Gascoyne before that of Cecil, and became possessed of the Bamber property, worth, it is said, 12,000l. a-year. There is a fine trait of Dr. Bamber, by Verelst, at the top of the grand staircase at Hatfield house. por NICHOLAS ROBINSON, M.D., a native of Wales, and a doctor of medicine of Rheims, of 15th December, 1718, was admitted a Licentiate of the College of Physicians 27th March, 1727. He died at an advanced May, 1775, and was the author of age, 13th A compleat Treatise of the Stone and Gravel. Dissolution of the 1 ge nso A new Method of treating Consumptions. 8vo. Lond. 1727. P A new System of the Spleen, Vapours, and Hypochondriack shr Melancholy. 8vo. Lond. 1729. Meor Discourse upon the Nature and Cause of Sudden Deaths, and d, 1 upon Bleeding in Apoplexy. 8vo. Lond. 1732. ice a A new Treatise of the Venereal Disease. 8vo. Lond. 1736. The Christian Philosopher; or, a Divine Essay on the Principles orge of Man's Universal Redemption. 8vo. Lond. 1741. An Essay on the Gout and all gouty affections incident to Mankind. 8vo. Lond. 1755. A Treatise on the Virtues and Efficacy of a Crust of Bread, eat early in a Morning, fasting. 8vo. Lond. 1756. 36. emb me A general Scheme for a course of Medical Lectures intended for ed the improvement of young physicians and gentlemen. 4to. Lond. SEBASTIAN LE FEVRE, of St. Alban's, Herts, was admitted an Extra-Licentiate of the College 5th May, 1727. LAWRENCE MARTEL, M.D., was born at Twickenham, and educated at Merchant Taylors' school, on leaving which in 1715 he entered as a pensioner of Clare ha Cambridge, and, as a member of that house, proceeded M.B. 1721; M.D. 5th July, 1726. Admitted didate of the College of Physicians 22nd December, Can1726, and a Fellow 22nd December, 1727, h in 1730, 1731, 1733, 1737, 1743; a and 1738. He died in 1746. ALEXANDER STUAP the 14th December of age, was enter graduated docto mitted a Licer was created was Ce e was Censor nd Registrar in 1737 T, M.D., a Scotchman, who, on 1709, being then thirty-six years (D.M.I. de Strmed on the physic line at Leyden and, or of medicine there 22nd June, 1711 ucturâ et Motu Musculari, 4to.), was adRegiis) 17 tiate of the College 25th June, 1720. He 179 ofdoctor of medicine at Cambridge (comitiis queen, in the Colle28, and was physician in ordinary to the which capacity he was admitted a Fellow of pointedge of Physicians 2nd September, 1728. He establinsor in 1732 and 1741. Dr. Stuart was apSt. physician to the Westminster hospital on its bashment in 1719, and one of the six physicians to ofeorge's hospital, appointed at the first general Gd, held 19th October, 1733, when he resigned his 17ce at the Westminster. He held his office at St. eorge's for a short period only, resigning it 9th July, 36. He was a fellow of the Royal Society, and a ember of the Royal Academy of Sciences; from the mer he received the Copley medal for his researches to the structure and action of muscle. Dr. Stuart ed 15th September, 1742. His only published work, amplification of his inaugural essay, was his die Dissertatio de Structurâ et Motu Musculari. 4to. Lond. 1738. An Address to the Public, containing Narratives of the Effects of certain Chemical Remedies in most Diseases. 8vo. Lond. 1745. JOHN CONINGHAM, M.D., was a native of Cumberland. He, being then twenty-two years of age was, on the 22nd August, 1718, entered on the physic line at Leyden, and he graduated doctor of medicine at Rheims 21st July, 1719. He was admitted a Licentiate of the College of Physicians 25th June, 1723; but, having been created doctor of medicine at Cambridge, 26th April, 1728, was admitted a Candidate 30th September, 1728, and a Fellow of the College 30th September, 1729. He was Censor in 1740, 1744, 1747; and was named an Elect 16th December, 1746. Dr. Coningham was appointed physician extraordinary to the London Hospital 16th March, 1742, and died 23rd January, 1749. line. ROBERT NESBITT, M.D., was the son of Mr. John Nesbitt, a dissenting minister, and was born in London. He received his medical education at Leyden, where he was, on the 1st September, 1718, entered on the physic He attended the lectures of Boerhaave and the elder Albinus, and took his degree of doctor of medicine there 25th April, 1721 (D.M.I. de Partu Difficili. 4to.). He was admitted a fellow of the Royal Society 22nd April, 1725; a Licentiate of the College of Physicians 25th June, 1726; and having been created doctor of medicine at Cambridge 15th June, 1728, was admitted a Candidate 30th September, 1728, and a Fellow 30th September, 1729. Dr. Nesbitt was Censor in 1733, 1738, 1742, 1745, 1748; on the 23rd March, 1740-1, was appointed Lumleian lecturer for a period of five years; an Elect 22nd August, 1748, and Consiliarius 1750, 1754, 1758. Haller says of him "bonus in universum auctor." He died 27th May, 1761; and was the author of Human Osteogony explained. 8vo. Lond. 1736. * Bibliotheca Anatomica, vol. ii, p. 286. |