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DALE, Samuel
Born: 1659
Died: 1739
Practice: apothecary & physician in Braintree
Education: apprenticed for 8 years to a London apothecary. Licensd by Bishop of London 3.4.1648; LRCP1730
Other Information: He apptd: Ben Gilson in 1716 for 7 yrs for £50; Jess Warner 1723 for 7yrs for £50. He was a friend of Jon Ray, famous botanist of Braintree.


DALTON, William Ruffell
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Practice: surgeon, Cliff rd, Dovercourt 1882 KD
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DAMMANT, William
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Practice: surgeon in Colchester
Education:-licensed by Bishop of London 10.7.1706  cert by Rb. Taylor,Wt. Greswold  Chr. Sparkes, Rb. Seaman
Other Information:- He apprenticed many pupils


DANIEL, Alfred
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Practice: surgeon, Colchester
Education: LSA 1832
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DANIEL, James
Born:-
Died: 1759
Practice: apothecary in Felsham
Education:- apprd to Zachariah Fisk apothecary Levenham 1722 for £60
Other Information: son of  James Daniel, apothecary Gedding


DANIELL, Jeremiah George
Born:-
Died: 1858
Practice: surgeon in Nayland 1824 for 50 yrs 
Education:- was apprenticed to Henry Rawlins Surg at Witham 1801, for 3 yrs for £120
Other Information: elected to Colchester Medical Society 1814 President 1834. He married Salome Stammers1814. He apprenticed: his son William 1832-37 qv; T. Partridge;  George Bagg.


DANIEL, John
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Practice: apothecary, Colchester
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Other Information: his son was Richard Daniel MD qv 


DANIEL, Richard
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Practice: apothecary , Colchester
Education: 
Other Information:-married Martha Bayles in 1625.His sons went to Colch.Grammer Sch: Richard in 1639 and Thomas in1648 .                          The Portage of North Bridge was farmed out to him 26.10.1635 for£10 p.a.


DANIEL, Richard
Born: 1700
Died: 1772  buried in St Martin’s Church.
Practice: physician in Colchester 1721
Education:-Colch Free Grammer Sch 1707.
Other Information:  son of John Daniel q.v. He built St Martin’s House in West Stockwell St (:his initials:R.D.1733 on hopper).He married Mary Blatch of Little Bentley in 1744. He was a competent amateur musician.


DANIELL, William jun
Born: 1815
Died: 1897
Practice: joined his father in Nayland
Education: apprenticed to his father Jeremiah,1832 -38  MRCS,LRCP 1838,
Other Information: elected to Colchester Medical Soc. 1843  President 1851  . He was married in 1844 to Emily Tiffen    Said to be 'quite a character, very fat and good natured'


DANIELL, William Barker
Born: 1792
Died: 1824
Practice: surgeon, Dedham
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DARGENT,
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Practice: surgeon, Halstead 1791-1799
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DAVEY, Charles James
Born:-1852  
Died:1923 Vrijheid, Natal, South Africa
Practice: surgeon,  Mansfield House, 16 Beverly rd. 
Education: Colchester Royal Grammer School; MB.CM (Edin), Guys
Other Information:  son of James Davey of Davey & Paxman. In 1878 went to Beaufort West, South Africa. Married Catherine Townsend 5/2/1879. Freemason. Founded the Vrijheid Public Library, his portrait hangs there.                                                                                                                                     


DAVIES, Rees
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Practice: chemist and druggist at 2 Roman Rd ,1886-1902 KD
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DAVIES, Samuel
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Practice: surgeon and man midwife, Headgate, Colch
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Other Information: advertised a course of lectures on Midwifery  20 Feb1728 for Physicians and Surgeons only: by manual operation and not the use of  dangerous and barbarous instruments.


DAWBER,
Born
Died                                                                                                                                                            Practice: chirurgeon Wivenhoe                                                                                                                                                              Other Information:  mentioned in deposition of Annabel Durrant, accused of witchcraft 14.4.1645      


DAWS, Richard
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DAWSON, Edward
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Practice: surgeon, Finchingfield 1878- 1882KD
Education: LFPS (Glasgow)
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DAWSON, John
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Practice: surgeon in Great Bromley 1855-1862 KD
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DAWSON, John
Born:
Died: April 1857
Practice: surgeon, Tolleshunt D'Arcy from 1839-55 PD
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Other Information: elected onto Colchester Medical Society 1839 .                                                                                 “Extravagant man squandered his wife’s fortune, a heavy drinker. He and many of his children died of TB” (P.Laver)


DAWSON, William Edward
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Practice: surgeon, 2Navarino Rd, Walton-on-the-Naze 1893KD
Education: LRCP (Ir)
Other Information:  became bankrupt in 1896


DAY,
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Died:1 Jan 1778
Practice: surgeon, Saffron Walden
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DAY, Cater
Born:
Died:  1799 ,drowned by driving over the side of Hythe bridge after a dinner party in Wivenhoe.
Practice:  surgeon, High St  1783
Education:  apprenticed to Courthope Sims  of  Dunmow in 1754 for £105 
Other Information:   one of the founders of Colchester Medical Society. He and his wife Ann were Quakers. He was a keen sportsman and keen inoculator against smallpox.  He Apprenticed: Francis Child; Richard Firmin; Maurice Mason; Robert Havens. He attended he inaugural meeting of the Ex&Herts BMS 30.10.1786. In 1782 he was adjudged bankrupt and his house put up for sale.


DAY, Charles
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Practice: surgeon,  Ixworth 1757-1787
Education: appreniced to John Spinluff of Bardwell 1744 for £145
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DAY, Thomas
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Practice: apothecary and surgeon in Saffron Walden 1720-77
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DAY, William Maule
Born:-
Died: 12/7/1935
Practice: a 4 Head street Colchester with Dr. Addison. Honorary Surgeon at ECH 1904-35
Education: Exeter College Oxford BA, MB ChB 1902
Other Information: joined Colchester Medical Society in 1903 Capt.RAMC 1914-18.Lived at 2 Lexden Rd


DEACON, Arthur
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Practice: chemist and druggist, Witham 1862-1866 KD
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DEANE, Arthur Dorman
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Practice: surgeon,Wellesley Rd, Clacton-on-Sea 1902KD
Education: MRCS (Eng) LRCS (Edin)
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DEE, Joseph Patrick
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Practice:  surgeon,1 North st, Walton-on-the-Naze 1902 KD
Education: MB ChB (Irl)
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DEEK, Isaiah
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Practice: chemist and druggist, Harwich 1823 PD
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DEGON, John
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Practice: apothecary in St Nicholas parish, Colchester 1564
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DE LAGE, Francis
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Practice: surgeon, Kelvedon 
Education: Licensed by  Bishop of London 1694
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DELAMASIERE, John
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Practice: surgeon in Harwich
Education:-Apprenticed to John Newell surgeon Harwich for £45,1715
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DELL, Christina
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Practice: chemist and druggist in Coggeshall 1823 PD
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DENNEY, Mary
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Practice: chemist in Coggeshall 1845 KD
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Other Information:- ? widow of William D.


DENNEY, William
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Practice:  chemist,druggist  and dealer in British wine, Church ,Coggeshall 1843
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DENNIS, Nathan
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Practice: surgeon Kelvedon  1779-1804
Education:-
Other Information: elected to Colchester Medical Society 1787


DICKIN, Edward Percival
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Practice: physician in Brightlingsea 1902
Education:-MD CM(Ed) LRCP (Lon)
Other Information: elected on to Colchester Medical Society 1902


DICKINSON, Charlotte
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Practice: chemist and druggist St Botolph & Barrack St, 1835-45 PD,KD- 
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DIGBY, Edward
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Practice: surgeon in Kelvedon 1831
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DIMSDALE, John 
Born:1680
Died:-1730
Practice: surgeon in Essex 1698
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DIMSDALE, Thomas
Born:1712
Died:1800
Practice: Essex
Education:-MD
Other Information: made a Baron by Catherine II of Russia for inoculating her and her court against smallpox in 1768.  Elected to Colchester Medical Society 1786. Was the First President of the Essex and Herts Medical Benevolent Soc 


DIXON, Edward Austen
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Practice: dentist with Buck,later with Frost  at 27and 13 Head St 1882-1904
Education:-
Other Information:-Honorary Dental Surgeon ECH 1892-1904.


DIXON, Charles
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Practice: surgeon Braintree, with brother Charles qv                                                                                                    Education: LSA 6/6/1816
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DIXON, Henry
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Practice: surgeon in Witham. 1827-55 PD
Education: apprenticed 1803 to George Wiltshire of Finchingfield for 5 yrs for £50.  MRCS 1810
Other Information: elected to Colchester Medical Society in 1811. During Typhus outbreak of 1806 he called in Sir James Mclean MD from Sudbury.


DIXON, John Nicholas
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Practice: surgeon High St  Braintree 1827-45 KD
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Other Information: contributed to Ex&Herts M B Society in 1805


DIXON, John
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Practice: surgeon Thaxted 1791-99 UBD
Education:-
Other Information: contrib. to -Ex&Herts MBS 1787-98


DIXON, Joseph
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Practice: surgeon, Dovercourt 1894-99 KD
Education:-LRCP,LRCS  (Edin)


DIXON, William
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Practice: surgeon and apothecary in Coggeshall 1779
Education:-
Other Information:- contrb to and was steward of Ex& Herts MBSoc 1787 -1801  


DODD, Andrew Thomas
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Practice:  surgeon, Colchester
Education: LSA  on 9/8/1828
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DORMAN, Edward
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Practice: surgeon in Great Clacton in 1850 KD
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DOVE, Frank
Born: 1867
Died:  1902 aged 35 in Indore, India 
Practice: Practiced in Langham, then was a Captain RAMC
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DOWLING, Richard
Born:
Died: 1755
Practice: surgeon St Matthews parish, Ipswich, where the poor were bled gratis. He was ex RN  
Education:
Other Information:  sold” Guttae Salutis”  own brand of drops for colic and coughs . He was the author of 'Love with Honour or the Privateer'  a farce. 


DOWNES, A
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Practice: surgeon in Maldon and Chelmsford
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Other Information: elected onto Colchester Medial Society in 1883, published “ Improving rural sanitation” 


DOWNING, Godfrey
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Practice: chemist and druggist in Dedham 1848 WD
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DOWNING, Joseph Godfrey
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Practice: chemist and druggist , 59 High st Braintree 1862-1899 KD
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DOWNING, Samuel: 
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Practice:  chemist and druggist  59 High st ,Braintree 1902 KD
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D'OYLEY, Thomas Thorougood 
Born:
Died:1798
Practice: surgeon and apothecary in Hadleigh 1779
Education:
Other Information-from the family at Layham(Suff)  whose fortune came from cheap summer fabric: “doyleys” on tables



DRAKE, Francis William
Born:-1818
Died: 1845
Practice: surgeon in Eat Bergholt 
Education: apprenticed to Thomas Tomkin of Whitam 1834-39.LSA 1839,then 18 months at St Thomas’ 
Other Information: elected to Colchester Med Soc 1844.son of Nathan Drake q.v.


DRAKE, Harry Francis
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Practice: dentist, chemist and druggist, Market Place, Dunmow 1894-99 KD
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DRAKE, Nathan
Born: 1766
Died: 7/6/1836
Practice: physician Sudbury then Hadleigh
Education:-md
Other Information: elected Colchester Medical Society 1891. Married Ursula Rouse1807; he was the author of a medical publication on pulmonary consumption. President of Suffolk Med Ben Soc1805 


DRAPER, Joshua
Born:
Died: 1686
Practice: Bachelor of Physic at Great House, Braintree
Education: went to Emmanuel College Cambridge in 1631 licensed by the Bishop of London1664
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DRAYTON, George
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Practice: surgeon in Braintree 1848  WD
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DRURY, Robert
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Practice: surgeon, Church st, St. Osyth 
Education: apprenticed to William Dammant for 3years £60 in 1717
Other Information: (his son Robert Drury was apprenticed to James Nelson of Manningtree for 5 years for £47 ) He apprenticed Thomas Skeely in1730 for 5 yrs for£50


DUDDELL, Myddleton
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Practice: surgeon in Coggeshall and Bures between 1787-1804
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Other Information:-subscriber to Essex & Herts M B Soc 1787-95


DUFFIELD, Henry
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Practice: chemist and druggist 28 High st,  Colchester 1898-192  KD
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DUKE, John
Born:-
Died: 16/5/1629
Practice: Practiced as Physick in Colchester 
Education: fellow of Emmanuel college Cambridge  BA1584, MA1588, MD1598
Other Information: married Anna Snelling in 1596


DUKE, Joseph
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Practice: surgeon in Halstead
Education: apprenticed in 1772 to Robert Starling, Colchester for 5yrs for £125
Other Information: elected onto Colchester Medical Society in 1783
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DUNCAN, Archibald Glen
Born: 1900
Died: 1973
Practice: 1925 as MO to Severalls Hosp.;Cons Psychiatrist and Superintendent 1939-59
Education: The London hospital, MB 1921; MD 1923,DPM 1926
Other Information: described as 'a reserved and unapproachable man so strong in his convictions that he couldn't really believe he was wrong and that anyone who opposed him was a fool” (P.Laver) he was a Mason of Grand Lodge.  Elected to CMed Soc 1932 President 1942.,


DUNCAN, Peter Martin
Born: 1824
Died: 1891
Practice: Hon. Physician at Essex County hospital 1824-1891
Education:  MB 1846., geologist 
Other Information: had professorship at Kings College London in geology 1870 Elect to Col.Med Soc. 1848, President 1856. Mayor of Colch. 1857, FRS 1868. Natural history, geology, paleontology, archeology: he discovered the postern gate of the Roman wall “Duncan’s gate”. married in 1851 Jane Cook and then to his second wife in 1869. He was a descendant of an old Scottish family. 


DUNINGHAM, Thomas
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Practice: surgeon and druggist in Walton-on-the-Naze 1863-66 WD
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DUKNLEY, Thomas
Born:-
Died: 16/5/ 1767
Practice: apothecary, surgeon and man-midwife in St. Nicholas Colchester 1755
Education:-
Other Information: married in 1754 to Mary Carlton


DUNN, George
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Practice: chyrurgeon,   Dedham
Other Information: his name appears on John Roger’s monument in Dedham church