COLCHESTER MEDICAL SOCIETY BIOGRAPHICAL PROJECT PRACTIONERS IN MEDICINE OF COLCHESTER & NE ESSEX Up to 1900 Compiled by Dr John Blake Penfold FRCP A ABBIS Thomas Born: - Died: - Practice: Maldon Education: Licensed by the Bishop of London on 17/9/1628 ABBOTSON Born: -1767 Died: -1809 Practice: surgeon at Stansted 1788, Barkway 1795.-1808 Education: - Extra information: elected to Colchester Medial Soc..Subscribed to Ex&Herts Medical Benevolent Soc - ABBOTT Alexander Edward Born: 1824 Died: 4/9/1885 (aged 61) Practice: Surgeon in Colchester. Education: - Extra information: - ABBOTT Charles Edward Born: - Died: - Practice: Surgeon and Physician, Rayne Rd, Bocking 1890 – 1892 KD Education: MRCS, LKQCP (Ir) Extra information: Married Ada Mary Short on 4/8/1883. ABBOTT John Born: Died:28.11.1774 Practice: surgeon Coggeshall ADAMS Edward Charles Born: - Died: - Practice: Chemist, Druggist, Dentist, agent for the Vaccine Establishment at Bocking End, 1835-39 PD - ADAMS Robert Ebenezer Born: - Died: - Practice: surgeon,Witham. Education: LSA 1828 ADDENBROOKE Thomas Born: - Died: - Practice: surgeon, Great Bardfield. Education: Apprenticed 14/7/1713 to William MacKerek, apothecary and citizen of London. Extra information: ADDIS P Born: - Died: - Practice: Chemist and Druggist, 7 Head Street Colchester, 1862.KD Education: - Extra information: - ADDISON Charles Edward Born: -1838 Died:- Practice: Physician and Surgeon, Head Street, Colchester, 1882 -1902 KD Education: LKQCP ( Ir)1882.,MRCS (1902), LM (1902), LRCP (1902) Extra information: Lived in High St., then Head St and retired to 31 Maldon Rd. Elected to Colch. Med. Soc1874, President 1886. Animal lover; ADYE Edward Thomas Born: - Died: - Practice: surgeon, Wethersfield Education: BA, MA Cantab, R. C. London, 1878. Extra information: - ALKIN Arthur Jennings Born: - Died: - Practice: Chemist and Druggist, Maldon, 1835-1850. Then Alkin, Alkin and Son, Manufacturing Chemist, Great Totham (1835-1839). Education: - AINSLIE James Born: - Died: - Practice: Surgeon and Apothecary at Great Dunmow, 1784 KD Education: - Extra information: attended he inaugural meeting of the Ex&Herts Med Ben Soc 30.10.1786 ALDERTON Thomas Born: 1821. Died: - Practice: Surgeon Shotely, Mistley, 1850. then Reefham, Norfolk, 1869. Education: Apprenticed to William Cutting of Halbrook 1843-1848. LSA 1848. Extra information: ALDHAM Henry James Born: Died: Practice: surgeon,Witham Education: LSA 4/7/1844 ALEFOUNDER John Born: 1752. Died: before 1785 Practice: surgeon, Colchester. Had been a naval surgeon until 4/10/1774 Education: was apprenticed to John Fiske surgeon Colchester in 1766 for 6yrs for£45. Member of Corporation of Surgeons of London 1779. Extra information: his father, John Alefounder was a carpenter, East Hill. ALLEN Benjamin Born: 1663 Died: 1738 Practice: He took over the practice of Dr. Joshua Draper in Braintree, 1692. Education: He was educated at St .Paul’s school, London (his tutor was High Master Dr. Thomas Gale). He went to Queens College, Cambridge where he took his medical degree MB in 1688. Extra information: He married Catherine Draper (aged 24) in 1695. His first book was written at Cambridge (‘The Chalebeate and Purging waters of England )published 1699. He had some papers published by the Royal Society which included ‘Generation of Eels’ and a study on Death-watch beetles. He wrote a commonplace book where he recorded medical cases. ALLEN Joseph Born: Scotland 1777 Died: - Practice: Chemist and Druggist 6 High St 1791-1827. Surgeon and druggist West Stockwell St 1848. Education: - Extra information: Unmarried. He lived at 80 Fingerninghoe Rd (Almshouse), in 1851. ALSTONE Thomas Born: - Died: - Practice: He was a surgeon in a Bures. Education: Licensed to practice, 1753 by the bishop of Norwich. Extra information: - ANDREW Thomas Born: - Died: - Practice: He was a physician in Halstead. Education: Licensed to practice on 30/5/1636 by the Archbishop of Canterbury at Lambeth. Extra information: - ANDREWS Edward Born: -1826 Died: - Practice: surgeon at Castle Hedingham. Education: MRCS and LSA 1848) Extra information: Elected to Colchester Medical Society on the 25/8/1863 ANGIER James Hague Born: 1804 Died: 1887 Practice: Surgeon in Ipswich 1843 to 1858 Education: Apprenticed to James Baker of Colchester, 1820 to 1825. He spent 9 months afterwards at the General Dispensary. LSA 1826 Extra information: His sister Mrs. Peck was accidently poisoned with prussic acid by an apprentice of Spencer Freeman of Stowmarket on March 1843. James moved to London in the late 1850’s. APPLEBE Born: - Died: - Practice: Simpson and Applebe surgeons, Church Street, Coggeshall.1890-92 Education: - Extra information: - ARCHER William Born: 1808. Died: - Practice: Surgeon Sudbury Education: Apprenticed to Charles B. M Syden of Sudbury, 1830 to 1835 then Surrey Dispensary. LSA 22/1/1835; MRCSE 1854. Extra information: - Surgeon in ordinary to the Ottoman embassy London 1854 ARGALL Samuel Born: 1611 Died: - Practice: Physic, Great Badow Education: He went to Chelmsford school then St John’ Cantab BA 1643. Leyden MD 1644, and Padua MD 1648, Inc Oxford 1652 FRCP 1662 Extra information: ARGENT John Born: Died: - Practice: Essex Education: Peter House, Cantab,1595. LRCP 1596, MD and FRCP 1597 Extra information: - ARNOLD Charles Born: - Died: - Practice: dentist 61 and 90 High Street, Braintree, 1886 to 1902. KD Education: - Extra information: - ARNOLD Joseph Born: - Died: - Practice: man-midwife in London, also worked in Tolleshunt D’Arcy. Education: He was registered in 1753. Extra information: elected member of Colchester Medical Society on 1785 ARNOT Mrs Born: - Died: - Practice: doctor in West Street, Harwich, 1863. WD Education: received an MD in China. Extra information: ASHWORTH James Henry Born: - Died: 1930 Practice: 1st MO to Halstead Hospital, he wrote the first AGR 1885. Surgeon and physician, High St Halstead, 1886 to 1902. He retired in 1913 and was presented with an album and a purse of gold. Education: -MD ,MRC(Edin) LSA (Lon) Extra information: He married Kate Smythe on the 23/12/1884. ASTON Joseph Born: - Died: - Practice: He was a surgeon Bures. Education: Extra information: -he apprenticed Thomas Buck 1755 fo7 yrs ATKINSON John Parkinson Born: - Died: - Practice: surgeon and physician in Church Street, Saffron Waldon, 1886 to 1902.KD Education: - Extra information: - ATTESTO Born: - Died: - Practice: chirurgeon, Earls Colne and Castle Hedingham Education: - Extra information: He was in a list of annuitants to Robert de Vere, Earl of Oxford, who died in 1604. ATTHILL Frank Born: Died: Practice: The Laurels,Great Bentley Education: Other information: elected to CMS 1928; son of Robert q.v. ATTHILL Robert Chapman Born: - Died: at the age of 73 years. Practice: He practiced in St. Oysth (1878-) and Great Bentley ( 1882-1902). He was also a resident medical officer at Charing Cross hospital, London. Education: LRCP(Edin) Extra information: AUSTON James Born: - Died: - Practice: surgeon, Colchester Education: LSA 23/6/1825 Extra information: - AYERS Arthur W Percy Born: - Died: - Practice: surgeon, Head Street and Crouch Street Colchester, 1894 to 1902 KD Education: - Extra information: - AYLMORE Theophilus Born: - Died: - Practice: practitioner of physic and chirurgery, Chelmsford Education: Licensed by Bishop of London 14/11/1677 Certified by Nicholas Toure MD; John Bostwick Medicus; John Betts MD