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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 married Sarah Marsh,

* He graduated as George Edward Wilmot.

daughter of Richard Mead, M.D.,

by whom he left one son,

Sir Robert Mead Wilmot, Baronet,
and two daughters, Ann and Jane.

He died at Heringston, in the county of Dorset,
the 21st day of November, 1787, aged 93,
and was interred by his own express directions
in the parish church of Monkton, in the said county,
near his beloved wife, who died

the 11th day of September, 1785, aged 83.

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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.
Reg. Soc. Colleg. Medic. Lond. Socius,
qui per multos annos medicinam
cum multâ laude feliciter exercuit.
Reipublicæ utilis suisque non inglorius vir;
maritus, parens optimus,

sociis charus, omnibus benevolus;
egenis arte atque re suâ liberalis.
Occidit eheu! flebilis

occidit morte subitâ nec inopinatâ,
senectute gravi, non valetudine,
Novembris die septimo, anno salutis 1753,
æt. suæ 86.

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 portrait of Dr. Bamber, by Verelst, at the top of the grand staircase at Hatfield house.

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 age, 13th May, 1775, and was the author of

A compleat Treatise of the Stone and Gravel. Dissolution of the Stone without bodily detriment, &c. 8vo. Lond. 1721.

Theory of Physick and Diseases, founded on the principles of the Newtonian Philosophy. 8vo. Lond. 1725.

A new Method of treating Consumptions. 8vo. Lond. 1727. A new System of the Spleen, Vapours, and Hypochondriack Melancholy. 8vo. Lond. 1729.

Discourse upon the Nature and Cause of Sudden Deaths, and upon Bleeding in Apoplexy. 8vo. Lond. 1732.

A new Treatise of the Venereal Disease. 8vo. Lond. 1736. The Christian Philosopher; or, a Divine Essay on the Principles 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.

A general Scheme for a course of Medical Lectures intended for 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 hall, Cambridge, and, as a member of that house, proceeded M.B. 1721; M.D. 5th July, 1726. Admitted a Candidate of the College of Physicians 22nd December, 1726, and a Fellow 22nd December, 1727, he was Censor in 1730, 1731, 1733, 1737, 1743; and Registrar in 1737 and 1738. He died in 1746.

ALEXANDER STUART, M.D., a Scotchman, who, on the 14th December, 1709, being then thirty-six years of age, was entered on the physic line at Leyden and, graduated doctor of medicine there 22nd June, 1711 (D.M.I. de Structurâ et Motu Musculari, 4to.), was admitted a Licentiate of the College 25th June, 1720. He was created doctor of medicine at Cambridge (comitiis Regiis) 1728, and was physician in ordinary to the queen, in which capacity he was admitted a Fellow of the College of Physicians 2nd September, 1728. He was Censor in 1732 and 1741. Dr. Stuart was appointed physician to the Westminster hospital on its establishment in 1719, and one of the six physicians to St. George's hospital, appointed at the first general board, held 19th October, 1733, when he resigned his office at the Westminster. He held his office at St. George's for a short period only, resigning it 9th July, 1736. He was a fellow of the Royal Society, and a member of the Royal Academy of Sciences; from the former he received the Copley medal for his researches into the structure and action of muscle. Dr. Stuart died 15th September, 1742. His only published work, an amplification of his inaugural essay, was his

Dissertatio de Structurâ et Motu Musculari. 4to. Lond. 1738.

THOMAS KNIGHT, of Caernarvon, was admitted an Extra-Licentiate of the College 23rd January, 1728-9. One of his name, probably our Extra-Licentiate, was the author of

An Essay on the Transmutation of Blood, 8vo. Lond. 1725. A Vindication of an Essay on the Transmutation of Blood. 8vo. Lond. 1731.

A Dissertation on Chalybeats. 8vo. Lond. 1731.

Reflections upon Catholicons, or Universal Remedies. 8vo. Lond.

1749.

THOMAS HARWOOD was admitted an Extra-Licentiate of the College of Physicians 30th January, 1728-9. He practised at Merrow, near Guildford.

JOHN BEAUFORD, M.D., was born in Cornwall, and educated at Trinity college, Cambridge, as a member of which house he proceeded A.B. in 1686. He was created doctor of medicine at Cambridge (comitiis Regiis), 1728; and was admitted a Candidate of the College of Physicians 25th June, 1729. He died, at a very advanced age, in October, 1750.

WILLIAM MARTIN, M.D., was born in Middlesex, and educated at Trinity college, Cambridge, where he proceeded M.B. 1723. In the autumn of that year he was entered on the physic line at Leyden, and graduated doctor of medicine there in 1725 (D.M.I. de Fluxu Menstruale et Morbis Virginum). He graduated M.D. at Cambridge 7th July, 1728; was admitted a Candidate of the College of Physicians 2nd September, 1728, and a Fellow 30th September, 1729.

JOHN MOUNTFORD, M.D., was born in London, and educated at Trinity college, Oxford. He proceeded A.B. 7th December, 1702; A.M. 5th July, 1705; M.B. 9th December, 1708; and M.D. 9th July, 1712. He was admitted a Candidate of the College of Physicians 30th September, 1728; and a Fellow 30th September, 1729; and died at his house in Wine-office-court, Fleetstreet, 28th March, 1731.

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