COLCHESTER MEDICAL SOCIETY BIOGRAPHICAL PROJECT PRACTIONERS IN MEDICINE OF COLCHESTER & NE ESSEX Up to 1900 Compiled by Dr John Blake Penfold FRCP N NASH William Born: - Died: - Practice: Chemist and Druggist in Witham, 1791 -1839 PD Education: - Other Information: - NAYLOR Rupert George St John Born: In India (a Eurasian) Died: - Practice: Physician, West Mersea in 1898. Education: -MD Other Information: Elected to Col.Med.Soc on 6.8.1895 and resigned on 24.10.1898, moving to New Zealand. ôA very eccentric man who never stayed long in one practice. While in practice in Scotland he married the daughter of a Scotsman, a strict Presbytarian. During his stay in Mersea he joined the Roman Catholic Church. He lived with his father and mother in law who were driven perfectly wild at his joining the Papistsö.(PLaver) NEAL (or OÆNEAL) William Born: - Died: - Practice: physician, Colchester, 1721 Education: MD Other Information: A subscriber to Peter BarwickÆs ôVita Johannis Barwickö in 1721. NELSON James Born: Died: - Practice: Surgeon, in Manningtree in 1742 and 1759. Education: Apprenticed to Thomas Manning, citizen and apothecary, London, 4.9.1717. Other Information: Son of James Nelson clerk in Essex. He apprenticed Robert Drury on 30.3.1742 for 5 years at ú47, and Henry Nunn on 11.1.1759, for 7 years at ú80. NEWEL(L) John Born: Died: 22.1.1751, Practice: Surgeon and physician in Harwich, Before 1680 up to 1751. Education: Other Information: Recommended by a letter, from Edward Alexander Esq. of Harwich, to Captain Grey, pacquet boat in Harwich on 2.9.1702: ôThe bearer hereof Mr Newel, being recommended to us for an able surgeon, and one whose character and ability ye are well acquainted with, he having been imployÆd in the same quality in one of the Pacquet Boats during the late war, in which service he behavÆd himself very well, we do hereby acquaint ye that we have appointed him surgeon No yn Boat, and am glad to hear he is a person very acceptable to you.ö Signed R Cotton T. And the following Sept 2 1715, Register: ô The bearer hereof Mr John Newell my parishioner, comes to wait on you according to your summons, in order to take out his licence Colchester Medical Men for the Practice of Physick and Chirurgery. He is a person of known reputation, approved skill and experience in that art. But as to any fresh certificate from graduate Doctors, it cannot be had in these parts, there being not any between this and Colchester (Signed) William Curtis, Ministerö In 1715, John Delamasiere, son of Elizabeth of Harwich, a widow, was apprenticed to John Newel for 7 years at ú45. NEWELL Edward Hasell Born: 1779, Died: 23.9.1800 Practice: Surgeon, Colchester, 1777. Education: Other Information: one of 12 children, son of R.R Newell qv, Subscriber to William CurtisÆ ôFlora Londinensisö, 1777. NEWELL Robert Born: 1705 Died: 1766 Practice: Surgeon and apothecary of Harwich. Education: Other Information: Married Susannah, daughter of John Richardson, who had inherited many properties and lived at Tymperleys and practiced as apothecary in Pelhams Lane, Colchester. û She died 1764 and their son R.R. Newell (founder of the CMS )went to live with his grandfather, who, however, died in 1768 . John Constable was apprenticed to Robert Newell on 8.1.1757. NEWELL Robert Richardson Born: 1750,. Died: 24.5.1814 Practice: Surgeon and apothecary in Head Street, Colchester in 1777 to 1811. Education: He was apprenticed to Robert Sterling, a surgeon of Colchester, for five years at ú126 on 14.8.1767. Member of Corporation of Surgeons of London 1799. He lived in Head Street, possibly at No 39 where a Blue Plaque was erected in 2013 where the lost 1932 plaque should have been. He had three apprentices during his life: Robert Tabsam, on 19.1.1781, for 4 years at ú126; John Toke, on 26.9.1789, for 5 years at ú137, and Roger Nunn, on 30.9.1799, for 5 years at ú160. ôIn the 1950 Inventory of the Town Hall by Mr L Drinkell of Reeman and Dansies was a picture (silhouette) in ebonised glazed frame with written on the back ôRobert Richardson NewellÆsö. On one copy of this inventory a note in pencil opposite the entry ôTo Libraryö thought by Mr Drinkell to be in Mr DansieÆs hand. The picture was in the Tower Room (now the Deputy MayorÆs Room) where the Oyster Feasts pictures are hung. The above was absent from the 1965 inventory. NB There was a sale of ôstuffö from the Town Hall in 1963ö Inside St. Mary at Walls, on the North wall of the North aisle is this tablet: æSacred to the memory of Edward Hasell Newell, surgeon who died Sep 23rd 1800 aged 21 years/ also of Robert Richardson Newell, M.D., who died May 24th 1814, aged 64 yrs,/ also of Sarah, relict of the above RRN who died 20 April 1825 aged 73. A similar plaque remembers another son Charles capt of an Eastindiaman who died in 1815. They are ALL buried in the Sir Isaac Rebow vault in the cemetery. In 1786, he instituted the Essex and Hertfordshire Benevolent Medical Society, which is one of the oldest in the kingdom but is now part of the Royal Medical Benevolent Fund. Newell opened the inaugural meeting on 20 October 1786 by declaring himself as the author of the newspaper advertisement which brought them together. He was made a trustee on 2.1.1787 and was to be known as the ôInstitutor ô. It says, much for NewellÆs tact, diplomacy and enthusiasm that at the age of twenty-four he was able to persuade his professional colleagues, all older than himself, to found the Colchester Medical Society but, he was also instrumental in calling that meeting at Chelmsford, which resulted in the foundation of the Benevolent Medical Society ôfor the relief of distressed medical men, their wives, children and orphansö. Newell was no doubt remembering his own parentless youth. The first President of this charity was Baron Thomas Dimsdale, M.D. (1712-1800), who had been given his title and a pension by the Empress Catherine II of Russia for his work in inoculating her and her courtiers against smallpox in 1768. There is no doubt that Newell became one of the leading members of the medical profession in north Essex. In 1813 he was presented with a silver bowl by his Colchester colleagues in recognition of his services to the medical profession. This piece of plate was subsequently bequeathed to the Colchester Corporation by his grandson Major F. H. L. Newell, and it now forms an interesting part of the townÆs regalia. It was lent to the Medical Society for their bi-centenary exhibition in February 1974. Major Newell also left the corporation a small silhouette portrait of his grandfather, which has since been lost. Dr Newell wrote to the newly-formed Humane Society of London founded in 1774 by Dr. William Hawes (1736-1808), and Dr. Thomas Cogan (1736-1818) as the Society for the Recovery of the Apparently Drowned. Their minute book records that, at a meeting held at the London Coffee House on 30 January 1776: æMr. Hawes then reported that a Society at Colchester had applied to this Society by a letter to him requesting of us to extend our rewards to that town and to enforce their requests they had undertaken to raise by subscription in the town sufficient to defray expenses attending.Æ/ This proposal was accepted at the annual general meeting of the Humane Society in May, and in the following February the secretary was able to report to the committee that the Colchester Medical Society had collected twenty guineas. In return for this financial help, the Humane Society elected all the members of the Colchester Medical Society at that date as ôDirectors and Medical Assistantsö. It was also reported to the committee of the Humane Society in May 1777, that ôa letter from Mr. Newell, secretary to the Medical Society at Colchester, having been read to the society, in which their society desired to have an apparatus according to the plans of the London Society, resolved to send their apparatus which was very soon put to use, for, in the annual report for the same year, Newell himself received a commendation for rescuing his own maidservant, who had fallen down a well. In this he was assisted by his colleagues Robert Sterling and Cater Day. It seems clear that the apparatus was a fumigator, which was a small pair of bellows and a tube, by which means they blew tobacco smoke into the rectum. It is not surprising that, as Newell recorded, the poor girl next day complained of a great sense of weight and fullness in the intestines, and I therefore gave her a gentle purge, which produced good effectsö. Letter to Newell from John Coakley Lettsom: ôand suffer premature death frequently thereby; and the Fair prospects of a Family I somehow mislaid thy letter which deserved an earlier answer as I approve the plan for establishing a Fund for the benefit of Widows and Orphans of Medical Men. I have long wished to see such an Institution effectually established, Every department of our Profession is in general fitted up with Gentlemen of Education who are under a necessity of supporting a certain appearance of expense, they are exposed to numerous sources of infection suddenly blasted and painful reverse presented to persons well brought up but thus sent off from future resources! May this Institution obviate the repetition of so dark a scene! Accept my Mite of five guineas enclosed and believe me your cordial well wishes Signed John Coakley Lettsom.ö The MD after R. R. Newell first appeared in the records in 1810, Other Information: son of Robert Newell, a surgeon and apothecary practising in Harwich and his wife, Susannah, daughter of John Richardson, who lived at Tymperleys and kept an apothecary’s shop in Pelhams Lane Founding member on 4.8.1774 and first Secretary of Colchester Medical Society. He married Sally Hasell in 1773 they had 12 children 6 boys and 6 girls. NEWMAN Adam Perry Born: - Died: - Practice: Physician and surgeon at White House, Bradfield,, and Manningtree in 1902.KD Education: M.D.( Dublin). Other Information: - NEWMAN Edward James Born: - Died: - Practice: surgeon, Witham Education: - Ms 8241B LSA 10.4.1828 Other Information: NEWMAN Henry Born: 24.11.1819, Died: 1908 Practice: Surgeon in Hadleigh where he practised from 1851, retiring in 1902, he is buried there. Education: Apprenticed to C. Boutflower and W. Waylen of Colchester from 1837 to 1842 and then spent 18 months at Barts Ms 8241B MRCS 1841. LSA 15.9.1842. Other Information:. He married twice: firstly, to the daughter of W.H. Travis, a surgeon of East Bergholt, and secondly, to Harriet Slack on 7.9.1854, who died 10.12.1861. He had one daughter born in 1859, and a son in 1877. He was a well-known follower of Essex and Suffolk Hunt. NEWMAN John Born: - Died: - Practice: Surgeon in Kelvedon 1791- 1827 Education: - Other Information: - NEWTON Samuel Born: . Practice: Surgeon and apothecary of Thorpe-le-Soken in1779- 1783 Education: 6.5.1730 apprenticed to Mark Fox, surgeon, for 6 years at ú60. After 1768, he was a student at Leyden. Other Information: He and Harris Salter, surgeon, of Colchester bound Samuel Firmin (25) to Elisabeth Fox widow (40) at St Martins, Colchester in 1739.. William Mayhew, attorney of Colchester, made the will of Susannah Newton:, spinster, in March 1741: she left her mother property at Much Holland for life, ôshe providing there outs according to her discretion, for my unfortunate reputed Daughter or Child Susannah, the spurious offspring of that ungrateful and perfidious villain, Edward Jones of Colchester, grocerö She revoked all wills, particularly the one she made in 1738 ôby the base artifice and insinuation of the said Edward Jonesö NICHOLAS ôthe physicianö Born: - Died: - Practice: Physician, Colchester Education: - Other Information: he was one of the Bailiffs, and Mayor of Colchester in 1272. NICHOLAS F.K. Lucius Born: - Died: - Practice: Surgeon of St Osyth in 1886 û 88 KD. Education: - Other Information: - NICHOLLS William Born: Died: 1799 Practice: Surgeon of Earls Colne in 1787-8 then of Nayland till 1798 Education: - Other Information: Essex and Herts. Bene. Med Soc subscriber: from 1787 to 1798. The District Court Angel in Kelvedon on 12.5.1800 received a letter from Mrs Thamar Nichols(aet.59) widow of the late Wm Nichols, surgeon at Nayland formerly of Earls Colne ôstating her husband is dead and she is needy. She also asks for apprenticeship fee for her daughter Sarah Maria aged 16ö. This was confirmed by a letter from Mr Thomas Harrold of Nayland, a very respectable surgeon. She was granted ú15 per annum and 2 guineas by Mr R RR Newell. Her petition was repeated in 1801 and 180 .The Essex and Herts. Benev. Med Soc General Court granted Sarah Nichols a donation of ú5 in 1823. NICHOLS Charles Born: Died: Practice: Surgeon of Harwich Education: MD (Caen)1627 Other Information: On 29.8.1706 he witnessed a Harwich document NICHOLSON Benjamin Hugh Born: 18.12.1859 in Kidsdale (Scot) Died: 19.2.1945 , aged 85, at Newton Stewart. Practice: Hon Surgeon to Essex and County Hospital, from 1894 to1924 and at 84 the High Street in 1894, 1898 and 1902. Education: M.B. Ch.M. Edinburgh and Vienna. Other Information: Lived in 84 East Lodge, High St 1895-1944. Joined the CMS in 1884 was President in 1893, 1922 and 1923. Member of the Council of Edinburgh University. Hunt and Nicholson were first doctors with a telephone in 1905. Captain of the 1st Eastern Gen. Hosp. RAMC T.F. in 1910; M.O. to Post Office and Orphan House; House Surgeon to Fire Brigade; Medical Referee on Pensions for Colchester and District Labour Dept. in 1920. ôHe came as H.S. to the ECH and simply owed his election to the fact that we would not have Dr WortsÆ nephew, and we never ceased to regret our votes. His conduct to Miss Moore was very bad, he was constantly running after her and paying her so much marked attention, which led Mrs. Moore to do all she could to get Mr. Hunt to take him as a partner, as she fully expected he would marry her daughter. When he had gained his points and was pressed as to his intention the ôbounderö showed up clearly, he said he had no intention of ever getting married. He has been true to his character as a cad ever since.ö û (P.Laver}. ôThe house: East Lodge, occupied by Dr Nicholson is a notable specimen of Elizabethan domestic architecture. With its four broad gable ends facing the street, its heavily moulded oak beams overhanging the cobbled pathway, its leaded casements, contemptuous of such modern innovations as sashes and its warmly tinted plaster panels it has since the days of the Armada looked down with quiet dignity on passers-by. It was the property of John Duke, ôphisicianö who died in 1628 and probably built by his father the Town Clerk. It was in 1670 sold by his eldest daughter, wife of William Cooke Esq. of Pebmarsh for ú400 to Dr Skinner. Thomas Skinner was physician and chirurgeon [ û archaic form of surgeon] to George Monk, Duke of Albemarle who lived in princely state at New Hall, Boreham some 18 miles away. The worthy doctor was both an Oxford graduate and a learned etymologist and his patient often is said to have loved conversing with physicians better than swallowing their prescriptions no doubt visited him here... Dr Skinner died in 1679.ö û (Social Life in Bygone Colchester, George Rickword, 1925). He was also known ôButcher Nicholsonö for his primitive surgical skills but he successfully performed the first appendectomy in Colchester in 1901 on a young man John Brown. ôAt a meeting of the Committee of the Management of the Essex County Hospital, the Chairman (Lieut-Col. Charles J. Round, D.L.) referred to the death on February 19. 1945 of Dr. B.H. Nicholson who served on the active honorary staff as a surgeon for forty years and made a vice-president of the Hospital. Deep appreciation of this long record of service was expressed and it was nanimously resolved that the CommitteeÆ.ö û East Anglian Daily Times, 28.2.1945. Harry Green, who worked for John Wheeler, said he worked for Dr Nicholson for 11 years. He looked after the open Vauxhall: Nicholson was a cheerful extrovert who called him ôHarry, me boyö. He was ôa right swankerö and a man for the ladies. He [Harry] used to drive him to Southend every now and then for a couple of nights there. Dr N. lived with his sister Miss Nicholson û she was a nice person and kept giving Harry things but he hadnÆt ôto tell the Doctorö. From Dr George BrownÆs daughter, Mrs Georgina Bland, aged 86 (1975): ôDr Nicholson was a very dapper man and used to drive a high dog cart and a little groom [H. Green] would sit on the back seat with a Dalmatian dog running under the cart.ö NIXON Richard Born: - Died: - Practice: chirurgeon of Braintree Education: -: Licence to practise granted by the Bishop of London, 1637 Other information. NORMAN John Born: 24.6.181 Died: September 1880, buried in Hadleigh Practice: Surgeon,oculist, farmer and landowner. at 3 Headgate 1839 to1878 Education: Apprenticed to William Mudd of Hadleigh 1826-1831, then 9 months at GuyÆs Hospital: L.S.A. 1831, MRCSE, 1832 Other information:öHis wife Hannah born in 1811 in Homerton, was a schoolmistress and teacher of English Literature, apparently running a school with her husband; they had three children, born in Colchester: John M (1837), Arthur (1839 but died as a child), Julia (1842) and Arthur Harry (1849 who became a doctor and died at Bourke, in NSW, in Australia on 8.8.1895).ö John Norman was once on the Town Council lived in house round the corner of S. John St. and Head St.( now removed), was no relation of Dr J.S. Norman of Mersea. He came from Layham in Suffolk and was a brother in law of the late Mr. Robert Hall, he having married NormanÆs sister [in 1836]. The Normans of Layham were the most cantankerous family I ever knew, even among themselves. When NormanÆs wife died he was present at the P.M. and kept the diseased vertebra of her neck for a long time (PGLaver). NORMAN John Sargent Born: - Died: October 1860 Practice: Surgeon in West Mersea in 1835 to 1855. Education: -: Ms8241B LSA 30.5.1816 Other information: Essex and Herts. Benev. Med. Soc. in 1816. Elected to Col. Med. Soc. 1817. He was a pretty good attender at the meetings (34/96). He showed a case of bronchoecele in 23.8.1842. Married on 18.1.1831 to Amelia Laura, second daughter of Thomas Cooper of Langenhoe Hall. They had one son who married a French woman and I think died in Paris, but I am not sure.ö (P Laver) NORMAN Joseph Clement Born: 1850 in Hertford Died: 14.10.1923 Practice: Surgeon at Needham Market, then Hadleigh for 47 years. Education: ChristÆs Hospital, then BartÆs. MRCS 1871, LSA 1874 Other information:. Married Margaret Dickens in 1875. Elected to Suff. Med. Book Soc. in 1883. Member of Col. Med. Soc. 1889-1891. In his later years he had severe rheumatic arthritis and had to be helped into his gig, whence he did all his work. NOTT James Stewart Born: - Died: Practice: Nott and Reilly, surgeons at the Gravel House, Coggeshall in 1835 to 1845. S on Church Street in 1848 to 1855, on Stoneham Street, Coggeshall in 1862 and 1863. Education: LFPS (Glas) 1839, MRCS (Eng) 1843 Other information: Elected to Col. Med. Soc. 30.10.1860 and removed from Society on 27.10.1863. Married Mary, daughter of John Hall, she died 29.3.1847, aged 29. This caused him doubtlessly to take to drink for he frequently gave way to that habit in later years with such a bad result that he died in Stanway Union (Poor House}. He had a daughter and maybe a son. She was a well-conducted and nice, ladylike person, going into a situation as a teacher and doing all she could for her father with no luck. He may have done well but he was always so hopelessly drunk that all wished to be bereft of him.(PGLaver) NOTT William Fraser Born: - Died: - Practice: Surgeon on Market Hill, Coggeshall, in 1848.WD Education: - Other information: - NOURSE Stuart Christopher Myngs Born: - Died: - Practice: Physician and surgeon at Redbourne Villa, Old Road, Clacton on Sea in 1898- 1902. Education: - MRCS (Eng) and LRCP (Lond). Other information: NUGENT Henry Born: 1842 Ireland Died: - Practice: Staff Ass. Surgeon in 1871. Education: - LRCSD(Irl) Other information:. Married to Fannie A. of Jamaica, 8 years his junior. NUNN George Born: - Died: - Practice: surgeon, White Parish Education: - Ms8241B LSA 5.6.1830 Other information: NUNN Henry Born: circa 1740 Died: 1818 Practice: Surgeon in Mistley in 1766. Surgeon and apothecary in Manningtree in 1772 to 1799. Education: Apprenticed to James Nelson, surgeon of Manningtree for 7 years at ú80 on 11.1.1759. Other information: Married Rachel Phillips of Harwich in 1766, and later Mary Carrington of Bradfield in 1772. Elected to Col. Med. Soc. July 1794. He apprenticed: Jeremiah Foker for 7 years at ú75, - 22.7.1767; Edward Turner for 6 years at ú48-23.3.1773; Luke Hill for 4 years at ú50- 26.2.1778; Joseph Nunn for 5 years at ú50- 30.3.1782, and Mark Lambe for 5 years at ú105, - 26.1.1789. He subscribed to the Essex and Herts. Benev. Med. Soc. in 1787-1798. He attended the 2nd meeting at Chelmsford on 2.1.1787, where he was made steward, the 5th meeting at the Half-Moon in Hertford on 8.6.1789, and the divisional meetings at the Angel in Kelvedon on 9.8.1790 (when he was made Vice-President), 9.5.1791, 9.5.1792, 13.5.1793 and 12.5.1794) G. Rogers made Vice-President in place of H. Nunn ). He was in partnership with George Rogers then 1795 took William Silk in partnership who would receive one third of the profits for 7 years. Full partnership dissolved in 1817 and Nunn was paid ú400. NUNN John Born: Bap. 18.8.1793 Died: - Practice: - Education: Apprentice to Samuel Philbrick 1819-1824 then nine months at City Dispensary Ms8241B LSA 1824 MRCS 21.5.1825 .Other information: Do. Assistant to Mr Travis of East Bergholt February 1837. In 1851 he was a non-practising surgeon, aged 57, lodging at 84 Lexden Road, the house of Edmund W. Watts, headmaster. NUNN Roger Born: Baptised 8.6.1783 Bury St. Edmunds. Died: 10.5.1844 buried in the family vault Practice: Started practice at Stanway, later moved into town and was elected senior Hon Surgeon of E&C. Hosp. on 22.6.1820, was succeeded by his son in 1836. Surgeon and apothecary on Queen St. in 1811 and 1827- 1839. Education: Apprenticed to Dr.R.R. Newell, for 5 years at ú160 on 30.9.1799. Other information: Elected to Col.Med.Soc. August 1804 He subscribed to Ex. & Herts. Benev. Med. Soc. in 1801 and 1805-1809. . First married in 1806 to Elizabeth the daughter of William Bunnell, (partner to Nathaniel Barlow),upholsterer and auctioneer, who died while seeking health at the waters at Bath on 31.7.180) then married Harrriet Farran in 1809. He reported on a visit to Norwich Hosp. about furnishings on 13.7.1820. He signed loyal greetings to the King on 21.11.1820. Lived in Queen St. 1827 and 1835. Burglary at his house on 30.8.1830, all family silver û marked with ôbeehiveö crest - was stolen. Mayor of Colchester 1834 and 1842 during which time he opened the bridge on the Colne at Middleborough and the 2d Town Hall (demolished). He took the chair at the AGM of the Eastern Branch of the Provincial Med. & Surg. Assoc. at Moot Hall, Colchester, on 12.6.1838. The large house on the corner of St. Botolph and Short Wyre St. was his home for many years. In 1841, he lived next door to his son, Roger Sturley Nunn on Queen Street, with Harriet and his children: Mary Ann (b. 1815), Adelaide Susan, Ellen Augusta, Caroline Sarah (all born c. 1821), Jane Mathilda, Octavia Sophia (both born c. 1826), Nora Eugenia H (b. 1827), as well as a governess, assistant surgeon Charles Scarfe and three maidservants. He visited many paupers around Colchester, facilitated by a large number of pupils who acted as if qualified. He apprenticed a Benjamin Francis Symmons. He is buried in the Nunn Vault at st Botolphs NUNN Roger Sturley Born: October 1813, only son of Dr Roger Nunn. Died: 6.Jan.1882 Buried in family vault in St. Botolphs Church. Practice: Hon surgeon ECH 1836-82,Surgeon at 11 and 12 Queen Street in 1835 to 1882.He later resided at the Oaks (now 19) Lexden Rd Education: He was taught Materia Medica by Dr Addison, Physics and anatomy by Bransby Cooper, Medicine by Drs Bright and Addison, Midwifery and Gynae in 1832 by Dr Blundell. He did this Hospital Practice at Guys Hospital, Rome and Paris. : He was registered 15.8.1831. LSA 21.11.1833 Other information: Elected Col.Med.Soc. June 1836. President 1847 and 1875. ôA great drinker who insisted on drinking at his patientsÆ houses. A lady killer with his foppish ways and was caught having an affair with a Mrs B.C. who lived in St. John St. and was horsewhipped by her husband.ö(P.L.) He performed the first operation under Ether anaesthesia in Colchester on 12 February 1847 but the patient died the next day from septicaemia. Dr Nunn published a letter in the medical press suggesting that anaesthesia had contributed to the death with the result that: 1 Colchester was considered the site of the first death under anaesthesia; 2 surgeons were reluctant to use it i.e in Crimea; 3 surgeons could claim that the operation had been successful but the patient had died from the anaesthesia. He attended AGM of Eastern Branch of the Provincial Med. and Surg. Association at Moot Hall, Colchester, on 12.6.1838. He was a good attender of meetings (41/80). On 7.8.1849 he read a paper of his observations on 53 cases of cholera visited by him and Dr Duncan in one week. In October 1850 he read a paper on ôHysteriaö. On 16.8.1853 he was on a committee to consider gratuitous practice, which reported on 8.8.1854. He first married Jane Theophila, daughter of Joseph Turner of ôOliversö who died aged 24 in 1844 and was buried with R.S. Nunn at St. BotolphÆs, and secondly Maria, daughter of John Stirling Wright of Birch Hall in 1855 when she was 32 and he 42. She died 5.3.1887 at the Oaks aged 64. NUNN Thomas Born: Son of Thomas Nunn, baker of HadleIgh Died: Buried in Hadleigh. Practice: surgeon,Hadleigh Education: Apprenticed to William Dammant, surgeon of Colchester for 7 years at ú50 on 15.3.1712. Other information: NUNN Thomas Partridge Born: - Died: - Practice: - Education: Apprenticed to Henry Wilkin, for ú295 on 5.4.1836 Other information: - NUNN William Born: - Died: - Practice: Druggist and cooper, at Medicated Vapour Baths on West Street Harwich in 1835- 1850 and became its Proprietor in 1845. Education: - Other information: - NUTHAKE Thomas Born: - Died: - Practice: Physician of Colchester1530s Education: - Other information: Said that he became acquainted with Abbot Beche in the year of his election (1533) The Abbot sent for him to support him in the treason charge against Abbot Beche in 1539 ( Victoria County History Vol II p.94).