proceeded A.B. 9th May, 1683; A.M. 19th March, 1686. In 1691 he was deprived of his fellowship, for being a non-juror, and diverting to medicine, proceeded to Leyden, and on the 11th May, 1692, being then thirty years of age, was inscribed on the physic line there. He was admitted a Licentiate of the College of Physicians 25th June, 1708. He died at Gravelines 23rd August, 1719. JOHN LACY, of Berkhampstead, co. Herts, was admitted an Extra-Licentiate of the College of Physicians 22nd July, 1708. JAMES LADDS, M.D., was educated at Caius college, Cambridge. On the 27th May, 1689, he was entered on the physic line at Leyden. Returning to Cambridge, he proceeded M.B. 1690; M.D. 3rd July, 1695. He was admitted a Candidate of the College of Physicians 22nd December, 1707, and a Fellow 23rd December, 1708. He was Censor in 1715, 1722, and dying 3rd January, 1724-5, was buried on the 12th at St. Andrew's, Holborn. WILLIAM GRIMBALSTON, M.D., was educated at Jesus college, Cambridge, as a member of which he pro ceeded master of arts in 1688; and on the 1st of October in that year was admitted a Licentiate of the College of Physicians. The College having been ordered by the queen to name a physician to attend the fleet and soldiers designed for the West Indies, recommended Dr. Grimbalston, who had expressed his willingness to undertake that office. He was appointed to it. Proceeding doctor of medicine at Cambridge in 1696, Le was admitted a Candidate of the College 22nd December, 1707, and a Fellow 23rd December, 1708. Dr. Grimbalston married Mary, a daughter of Philip Chetwode, of Oakley hall, co. Stafford, esq., by his wife, Hester, daughter and heiress of William Touchet, of Whitley, in the county of Chester, esq. Dr. Grimbalston died 29th September, 1725. HENRY LEVETT, M.D., was the son of William Levett, of Swindon, co. Wilts, esq., and was educated at the Charterhouse. On the 12th June, 1686, being then eighteen years old, he was matriculated at Magdalen hall, Oxford, and in July of the same year was elected demy of Magdalen college; but being elected to a fellowship at Exeter college, he removed thither, and as a member of that house proceeded A.B. 24th November, 1692; A.M. 7th July, 1694; M.B. 4th June, 1695; and M.D. 22nd April, 1699. He was admitted a Candidate of the College of Physicians 22nd December, 1707; and a Fellow 23rd December, 1708; was Censor in 1717; Treasurer, 1718, 1719, 1720, and again for 1723 and 1724. He was physician to St. Bartholomew's hospital, and to the Charterhouse; to the first he was elected 29th April, 1707, to the second in 1713. Dr. Levett restored, or more properly rebuilt the physician's house at the Charterhouse, and left to his successors in that office the commodious residence in Charterhouse-square, on the left of the archway leading into the Charterhouse. He died at this his residence, in July, 1725. He was buried in the chancel of the Charterhouse chapel, where there is a monument with the following inscription : è Collegio S. Magdalenæ Noscomio S. Bartholomæi præpositus, quocunque ea in loco obtigerant omnium commodis inserviit, et sine invidia laudem consectus est: aut amici aut viri probi, aut medici denique scientis et assidui Ob. Julii A.C. 1725. Et. 58. THOMAS CROW, M.D., was of Caius college, Cambridge, as a member of which he proceeded bachelor of medicine 1694; doctor of medicine 1699. He was admitted a Candidate of the College of Physicians 22nd December, 1707, and a Fellow 23rd December, 1708. He was Censor in 1713 and 1720. Dr. Crow in 1720, being then senior censor, gave to the college the clock now in the reading-room, then valued at 301. He took a very active part in the preparation of the Pharmacopoeia Londinensis of 1746; and at his own cost furnished every member of the College with a printed copy, first of the original draft of the work; and subsequently of it as finally agreed on by the committee for presentation to the College. Dying 11th August, 1751, aged eighty, he bequeathed to St. Luke's hospital (of which he was vice-president) 400l.; to St. Thomas's and Christ's hospitals 100l. each; and to the College of Physicians 50l. and his library of Greek and Latin books, a very choice collection.* * The following are clauses from his will:-"I give to the College of Physicians 507. in consideration of some loss sustained by them by a tenant of my recommending." "I, Thomas Crow, do make this codicil to my last will and testament. I give to the President and College of Physicians in London and their successors for an addition to their library such of my printed books only as have no English in them and as they have not already in their library; and if they like any copies of the printed books in my library better than the printed books of the like kind now in the college library, or if mine be better copies, though they have them already (I mean HENRY PLUMPTRE, M.D., was born in Nottinghamshire and educated at Queen's college, Cambridge, of which house he was admitted a pensioner 19th January, 1697-8. He graduated A.B. 1701-2, and on the 15th February, 1702-3 was admitted a fellow of his college, an office he vacated by not taking orders 4th July, 1707. He proceeded A.M. 1705 and M.D. per literas Regias in 1706. He was admitted a Candidate of the College of Physicians 22nd December, 1707, and a Fellow 23rd December, 1708. He delivered the Gulstonian lectures in 1711; the Harveian oration in 1722; and on the 19th March, 1732-3, was appointed to succeed Dr. Walter Harris as Lumleian lecturer. Dr. Plumptre was Censor in 1717, 1722, 1723, 1736; Registrar from 1718 to 1722 inclusive; Treasurer 13th July, 1725, in place of Dr. Levett, deceased; and Consiliarius 1735, 1738, 1739. On the 5th August, 1720, he "presented to the college a writing standish of plate of 80 ounces. He was named an Elect 5th May, 1727; and occupied the Presidential chair for six consecutive years, viz., from 1740 to 1745 inclusive. During the whole of the period that Dr. Plumptre was president the fifth Pharmacopoeia Londinensis was in course of revision and re-construction. To its improvement he devoted his best exertions and energy, and to him it would seem was mainly due the simplification in the formulæ that distinguished the work from all its predecessors. The Pharmacopoeia was published in the summer of 1746. Dr. Plumptre died 26th November, 1746.* The such as have no English), I give unto the College, to be chosen by Dr. Letherland, Dr. Hall, and Dr. Reeve, or any of them, within three months after my decease and after they have chosen for the College, as I doubt not they will do very fairly, I give all the remainder of my printed books as have no English in them I give them to my good friend, Mr. Paul of Cannon-street, London, surgeon." "Meministis ipsi quàm variâ ille abundaret doctrinâ ; quo ingenio floreret; quam splendidè amplissimum apud vos magistratum gereret; ut omni studio, gratiâ, auctoritate incumberet ad hanc tuendam Remp. Nec minori sanè curâ et diligentiâ medicinæ ipsius cultui et castitati prospexit; qui Pharmacopoeia nostræ corrigendæ portrait of this physician, possessed by the College, was presented by himself 1st October, 1744. The doctor was physician to St. Thomas's hospital, an office he resigned in 1736. Dr. Plumptre was the author of a pamphlet entitled "A Serious Conference between Scaramouch and Harlequin," having reference to the controversy then raging between Dr. Woodward and Dr. Friend.* JOHN TURNER had previously practised as an apothecary, but, having been disfranchised of his Company, he was, after the usual examinations, admitted a Licentiate of the College of Physicians 23rd December, 1708. He was the author of a small work De Febre Britannicâ Anni 1712 Schediasma. 4to. Lond. 1713. | STEPHEN HALL was a son of Mr. Henry Hall, a citizen and merchant taylor of London, who died 31st March, 1730. He had practised for some years as a surgeon in London, but, having relinquished that branch of the profession, was on the 1st February, 1708-9, admitted an Extra-Licentiate of the College of Physicians. He was subsequently appointed physician to Greenwich hospital, and died 29th October, 1731, aged fifty-six. He was buried in the family vault at West Ham, and is commemorated with his tam sedulo invigilaverit, inconditasque medicamentorum farragines et inexplicabiles mixturas tam prudenti delectu, tam eleganti simplicitate, temperaverit. Idem pariter in vitâ constans veritatis non fucatæ cultor, et inimicus fraudis; in circulis, in congressionibus familiarium festivus, dulcis, urbanus, non, nisi apud ægros, se professus medicum. Neque enim oportere visum est supercilium, et rugas, et senectutem induere; nec dissociabiles esse res judicavit jucunditatem et sapientiam. Felicem illum ingenii, qui seria sua quasi aliud agens et ludibundus expedire potuit; et ne ludebat quidem, ut non in eo simul nescio quid egregii et excellentis elucesceret!" Oratio Harveiana anno MDCCLXI habita, auctore Georgio Baker. *Rouse's Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Dr. Friend. 8vo. Lond. 1731, p. 84. |