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Table Three |
2.6.1 TA3 Physician commissioners: Table of individuals with
biographical notes
The table is in chronological order of the year the commissioner was first appointed (first column), gives the total number of years served (third column), the year of becoming a fellow of the college (fourth column), and the specific years of appointment in the last column. The footnote references all relate to problems of identification. |
Year first appointed | Number of years as a commissioner | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
Name and notes | frcp | Specific Years Appointed | ||
1774 |
William Pitcairn
(3).
born 1711 died 25.11.1791 President 1775-1785 Physician the Blue-Coat School Fellow Royal Society from 1770 |
10 |
FRCP
1750 |
Commissioner 1774,1775+1776, 1778+1779, 1780,1782+1783, 1788. |
Henry Hinckley.
died 1.11.1779 Treasurer 1762-1779 |
2 |
FRCP
1755 |
Commissioner 1774+1775 | |
Robert Thomlinson.
died 5.6.1788 Treasurer 1780-1787 |
2 |
FRCP
1767 |
Commissioner 1774+1775. | |
John Pringle.
born 1707 died 18.1.1782. See note |
1 |
FRCP
1763 |
Commissioner 1774 | |
Thomas Reeve.
born about 1700 died 3.10.1780. President 1754-1763 |
1 |
FRCP
1736 |
Commissioner 1774 | |
1775 |
Richard Brocklesby.
born 11.8.1872 died 1797. Physician to Samuel Johnson. See note |
7 |
FRCP
1756 |
Commissioner 1775+1776, 1784, 1787, 1790, 1792, 1795. |
Thomas Gisborne
died 24.2.1806 President 1791, 1794, 1796-1803. Physician to George 3rd
|
12 |
FRCP
1759 |
Commissioner 1775,1776+1777, 1786, 1791, 1794, 1796,1797+1798, 1800,1801+1802. | |
1776 |
Thomas Lawrence
born 25.5.1711 died 6.6.1783. President 1767-1774. Friend & Physician to Samuel Johnson. See note |
2 |
FRCP
1744 |
Commissioner 1776+1777 |
William Cadogan.
born about 1711 died 26.2.1797
|
5 |
FRCP
1758 |
Commissioner 1776+1777, 1785, 1789, 1793. | |
1777 |
John Lewis Petit.
died 27.5.1780 |
1 |
FRCP
1767 |
Commissioner 1777 |
Richard Warren.
born 13.12.1731 died 22.6.1797. Physician to George 3rd during his madness. Friend of the Prince of Wales.
|
1 |
FRCP
1761 |
Commissioner 1777 | |
1778 |
George Baker.
born 1722 died 15.6.1809. President 1785-1790, 1792-1793, 1795. George 3rd's personal physician. |
10 |
FRCP
1757 |
Commissioner 1778+1779, 1785,1776+1777, 1789+1790, 1792+1773, 1795. |
Henry Revell Reynolds
born 26.9.1745 died 22.10.1811. Registrar RCP 1781-1783 Physician to George 3rd during his madness. |
3 |
FRCP
1774 |
Commissioner 1778,1779+1780 | |
Isaac Schomberg
died 4.5.1780 note Whitmore House |
2 |
FRCP
1771 |
Commissioner 1778+1779. | |
Richard Tyson.
died 9.8.1784. Registrar RCP 1774-1780
|
2 |
FRCP
1761 |
Commissioner 1778, 1780. | |
1780 |
John Turton.
born about 1736 died 14.4.1806. A royal physician. |
2 |
FRCP
1768 |
Commissioner 1780+1781 |
Richard Wright.
died 14.10.1786
|
2 |
FRCP
1775 |
Commissioner 1780+1781 | |
1781 |
Sir Lucas Pepys
(1)
born 26.5.1742 died 17.6.1830. Treasurer 1788-1798. President 1804-1810. Physician to George 3rd during his madness. |
14 |
FRCP
1775 |
Commissioner 1781+1782, 1790, 1794, 1800, 1804,1805+1806, 1808,1809+1810, 1814, 1819, 1823. |
Noah Thomas
died 17.5.1792. Physician to George 3rd. |
2 |
FRCP
1757 |
Commissioner 1781+1782. | |
John Burgess.
born 1745 died 2.4.1807
|
6 |
FRCP
1775 |
Commissioner 1781+1782, 1791, 1795, 1800, 1805 | |
1782 |
Thomas Heald.
died 26.3.1789. |
3 |
FRCP
1760 |
Commissioner 1782+1783, 1787 |
From 1783 there is a clear practice of appointing one, two or three commissioners who have only recently become fellows, and that they are appointed in the same chronological order as their fellowship. From this point the column of specific years is divided into years as a junior commissioner and years as a senior commissioner. |
Year first appointed | Number of years as a commissioner | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Name and notes | Specific Years Appointed: | ||||
1783 |
Richard Budd.
born 1746 died 2.9.1821. Treasurer 18.3.1799 to 4.4.1814. |
9 |
FRCP
1777 |
Junior
1783+1784 |
Senior Commissioner
1792, 1797, 1801, 1805, 1809, 1813, 1816. |
Donald Monro.
born 1727 died 9.6.1802 |
4 |
FRCP
1771 |
Junior
1783+1784 |
Senior Commissioner 1788+1799 | |
Francis Milman.
born 1746 died 24.6.1821. Sir (Bt) 1800. President 1811-1813. Physician to the Royal Family |
8 |
FRCP
1778 |
Junior
1783+1784 |
Senior Commissioner
1793, 1797, 1801, 1806, 1811, 1812. |
|
1784 |
James Hervey
died 1821. Registrar 1784-1814. |
9 |
FRCP
1782 |
Junior
1784+1785 |
Senior Commissioner
1794, 1798, 1802, 1806, 1811, 1821 |
1785 |
William Watson
(2)
born 1715 died 10.5.1787. Sir (Kt) 1786 |
2 |
FRCP
1784 |
Junior
1785+1786 | |
John Gideon Caulet.
born 1750/1753? died 24.7.1786 |
1 |
FRCP
1784 |
Junior
1785 | ||
1786 |
Robert Knox.
died 22/5/1792 |
2 |
FRCP
1786 |
Junior
1786+1787 | |
David Pitcairn
(3)
born 1.5.1749 died 17.4.1809 Physician to Charles and Mary Lamb |
3 |
FRCP
1785 |
Junior
1786+1787 |
Senior Commissioner
1807 |
|
1787 |
James Robertson Barclay
(4)
died 1827? Physician to Princess of Wales 1799 |
3 |
FRCP
1787 |
Junior
1787+1788 |
Senior Commissioner
1802 |
1788 |
William Austin.
died 21.1.1793 |
2 |
FRCP
1787 |
Junior
1788+1789 | |
George Fordyce.
born 18.11.1736 died 25.5.1802 |
3 |
FRCP
1787 |
Junior
1788+1789 |
Senior Commissioner
1798 |
|
1789 |
John Ash.
born about 1723 died 18.6.1798. The only commissioner for whom I found a record that he had, himself, been insane. (See Munk) |
2 |
FRCP
1787 |
Junior
1789+1790 | |
1790 |
James Carmichael Smyth.
born 1741 died 18.6.1821. Physician to George 3rd |
4 |
FRCP
1788 |
Junior
1790+1791 |
Senior Commissioner
1799, 1803. |
1791 |
John Mayo.
born 1761 died 1818. Secretary 1797-1807 |
3 |
FRCP
1788 |
Junior
1791+1792 |
Senior Commissioner
1808. |
John Latham
(1)
born 29.12.1761 died 20.4.1843. President 1813-1819. Physician to George 4th. |
11 |
FRCP
1789 |
Junior
1791+1792 |
Senior Commissioner
1799, 1803, 1807, 1813, 1814+1815, 1817, 1818, 1825. |
|
1793 |
Mathew Baillie.
born 27.10.1761 died 23.9.1823. Physician to George 3rd in 1810. See Halford's biography |
2 |
FRCP
1790 |
Junior
1793+1794 | |
William Saunders.
born 1743 died 29.5.1817. Physician to Prince of Wales. |
4 |
FRCP
1790 |
Junior
1793+1794 |
Senior Commissioner
1803, 1807 |
|
1795 |
Henry Halford
(1)
(2)
born 2.10.1766 died 9.3.1844. President 30.9.1820 to death. Physician to four monarchs. See separate biography |
8 |
FRCP
1794 |
Junior
1795+1796 |
Senior Commissioner
1820,1821+1822, 1824,1825+1826. |
Edward Roberts.
born about 1762 died 21.11.1846. |
6 |
FRCP
1793 |
Junior
1795+1796 |
Senior Commissioner
1804, 1811, 1816, 1822. |
|
1796 |
John Hunter.
died 29.1.1809. |
3 |
FRCP
1793 |
Junior
1796+1797 |
Senior Commissioner
1804. |
1797 |
Henry Ainslie
(5)
born about 1762 died 26.10.1834. |
4 |
FRCP
1795 |
Junior
1797+1798 |
Senior Commissioner
1809, 1817. |
1798 |
William Hyde Wollaston.
born 6.8.1766 died 22.12.1828. Left medicine (for chemistry) in 1800. |
2 |
FRCP
1795 |
Junior
1798+1799 | |
1799 |
Arthur Daniel Stone.
born 14.2.1764 died 12.8.1842. See 2.5.2.1 and 6BIOL5. |
4 |
FRCP
1795 |
Junior
1799+1800 |
Senior Commissioner
1810, 1818. |
1800 |
Christopher Pemberton.
born about 1765. died 31.7.1822. Royal Physician. |
3 |
FRCP
1796 |
Junior
1800+1801 |
Senior Commissioner
1810. |
1801 |
Richard Powell.
born 1767 died 18.8.1834. Secretary 1808-1825. |
2 |
FRCP
1796 |
Junior
1801+1802 | |
1802 |
George Paulet Morris.
born about 1759 died 17.9.1837. |
3 |
FRCP
1795 |
Junior
1802+1803 |
Senior Commissioner
1808. |
1803 |
William Heberden.
(1)
born 23.3.1767 died 19.2.1845. Royal Physician. Evidence to 1828 Select Committee |
3 |
FRCP
1796 |
Junior
1803+1804 |
Senior Commissioner
1827 |
1804 |
Algernon Frampton.
(1)
born 7.1.1776 died 21.9.1842. |
5 |
FRCP
1798 |
Junior
1804+1805 |
Senior Commissioner
1812, 1820, 1826 |
1805 | Robert Darling Willis. Son of Rev. Francis Willis who treated George 3rd's insanity in 1788. Robert Darling was in charge of the King from 1810. | 2 |
FRCP
1798 1805+1806 | ||
1806 |
Charles Gower.
died April 1822. |
4 |
FRCP
1800 |
Junior
1806+1807 |
Senior Commissioner
1813, 1821. |
1807 |
William Maton.
born 31.1.1774 died 30.3.1835. Treasurer 1814-1820. Royal Physician. |
4 |
FRCP
1802 |
Junior
1807+1808 |
Senior Commissioner
1814, 1823. |
1808 |
James Haworth.
died 2.5.1823. |
2 |
FRCP
1803 |
Junior
1808+1809 | |
1809 |
William Lambe.
born 26.2.1765 died 11.6.1847. An eccentric vegetarian who practised amongst the poor |
4 |
FRCP
1804 |
Junior
1809+1810 |
Senior Commissioner
1817, 1822. |
1810 |
Charles Price.
born about 1786 died 8.9.1853 |
2 |
FRCP
1805 |
Junior
1810, 1812 | Senior Commissioner |
1811 |
George Gilbert Currey.
died 11.12.1822. Treasurer 26.6.1820 to death |
3 |
FRCP
1805 |
Junior
1811+1812 |
Senior Commissioner
1818 |
Thomas Turner
(1)
born 17.1.1733 died 10.3.1865. Treasurer 23.12.1822 to 25.6.1845. Went on to be a Metropolitan Commissioner. |
4 |
FRCP
1805 |
Junior
1811, 1813 |
Senior Commissioner
1819, 1824. |
|
1812 |
James Franck.
died 27.1.1843. An army physician. |
2 |
FRCP
1803 |
Senior Commissioner
1812, 1816. |
|
1813 |
Richard Satterley.
died 1815. |
2 |
FRCP
1806 |
Junior
1813+1814 | |
1814 |
Charles Dalston Nevinson.
born 23.11.1773 died 12.8.1846. |
3 | FRCP 1806 |
Junior
1814+1815 |
Senior Commissioner
1820 |
1815 |
Pelham Warren.
born about 1777 died 2.12.1835. |
1 |
FRCP
1806 |
Junior
1815 | |
1816 |
Robert Bree.
born about 1759 died 6.10.1839. |
4 |
FRCP
1807 |
Junior
1816+1817 |
Senior Commissioner
1823, 1827 |
John Cooke.
died 1.1.1838. Published a treatise on nervous diseases in 1820. |
3 |
FRCP
1807 |
Junior
1816+1817 |
Senior Commissioner
1824. |
|
1818 |
Tristram Whitter.
born about 1774 died 5.2.1855. |
2 |
FRCP
1808 |
Junior
1818+1819 | |
Thomas Hume
(2)
(6)
born 1781/1782 died 1.3.1857. Went on to be a Metropolitan Commissioner. |
3 |
FRCP
1808 |
Junior
1818+1819 |
Senior Commissioner
1827 |
|
1819 |
Christopher Pegge. (Sir)
born about 1764 died 3.8.1822. Regius Professor of Physic, Oxford. |
1 |
FRCP
1796 |
Senior Commissioner
1819 |
|
1820 |
John Bright
(1)
born 17.12.1782. died 1.2.1870. Secretary 1825-1828. Went on to be a Metropolitan Commissioner. |
2 |
FRCP
1809 |
Junior
1820+1821 | |
Clement Hue
(6)
born about 1779 died 23.6.1861. Registrar 1815 to 4.2.1824. |
3 |
FRCP
1808 |
Junior
1820+1821 |
Senior Commissioner
1825. |
|
1822 |
Thomas Young
(1)
born 13.6.1773 died 10.5.1829 |
2 |
FRCP
1809 |
Junior
1822 |
Senior Commissioner
1827 |
Henry James Cholmeley
(7)
born about 1777 died 14.6.1837. |
2 |
FRCP
1810 |
Junior
1822+1823 | ||
1823 |
Joseph Ager
(2)
born about 1780 died 17.7.1857. |
2 |
FRCP
1811 |
Junior
1823+1824 | |
1824 |
Richard Harrison.
born about 1785 died 10.1.1825. |
1 |
FRCP
1814 |
Junior
1824 | |
1825 |
John Ayrton Paris.
born about 1785 died 24.12.1856. President 20.3.1844 to death. |
1 |
FRCP
1814 |
Junior
1825 | |
Grant David Yeates
(1) (or Yeats)
born 1773 died 14.11.1838. Physician to Duke of Bedford. He helped establish the Bedford County Asylum. Evidence to 1827 Select Committee |
2 |
FRCP
1815 |
Junior
1825+1826 | ||
1826 |
William Macmichael
(1)
born 1784. died 10.1.1839. Registrar 6.2.1824 to 1829 See Halford's biography |
2 |
FRCP
1818 |
Junior
1826+1827 | |
1827 |
Robert Williams.
died 24.11.1845. |
1 |
FRCP
1817 |
Junior
1827 |
IDENTIFICATION NOTES TO TABLE THREE
(1) The identity of commissioners marked (1) is confirmed by the minutes of
evidence
of Select Committees of the Houses of Commons or Lords. (References given
below).
The evidence of
Heberden,
Macmichael and
Yeates,
confirms the
dates given. The evidence of
Nevinson,
confirms 1820 and fits the
other dates.
The evidence of
Pepys,
Frampton,
Turner,
Bright,
and
John Latham fits the dates
given without positively confirming them. In
Latham's
case, his evidence to the 1828 SCHL eliminates a manuscript ambiguity, for
it is
clear that it is John Latham and not his son, Peter Mere Latham, who was
commissioner in 1825.
Bright in 1827 names
Halford,
Frampton,
Young,
Yates (sic), and
Macmichael,
as commissioners for that
year.
The year of appointment would have been 1826, and this corresponds with the
manuscript.
The evidence of
Thomas Young,
does not correspond with my notes from
the
manuscript. He says that he had been a commissioner three different years,
and was
first so ten or twelve years ago. That would be 1818 or 1816. My (only)
manuscript
dates are 1822 and 1827. Later he was asked Were you a Commissioner in þ
1820?, and
answered No; I was Commissioner much longer ago than that, and again last
year.
References:
1815 SCHC
(Madhouses). Sir Lucas Pepys (p.911) John Latham (p.913).
Richard Powell gave evidence
as Secretary, but does not mention having been a commissioner.
Henry Halford gave evidence to the
1816 SCHC
(Madhouses) (p.913), but not
as a commissioner.
1827 SCHC (Pauper Lunatics). John Bright (pp 119+116), William
Macmichael
(p.?),
Algernon Frampton (p.134), Grant David Yeates (p.162).
1828 SCHL (Bills)
William Heberden (p.725), Charles Dalston Nevinson
(p.731), Thomas
Turner (p.737), John Bright (p.742), Thomas Young (pp 733+734), John Latham
(p.735).
(2)
On the evidence, I am convinced that no Licentiate was ever chosen by the
College as a commissioner. In the cases of
Watson,
Halford,
Roberts
and
Hume,
however, there were Licentiates listed in
Munk who could arguably have been the persons meant by the minutes rather
than the fellows I have named:
Joseph Ager:
I read the 1823 entry as L. Dr Ager. I thought L might
stand for
Licentiate, but I cannot find any Ager who was a Licentiate, either in Munk
or in
Anon, 1818. Dr Ager (the Fellow) was amongst those I noted as present at
the annual
meeting in 1824. (I made no note of those present in 1823).
(3)
William Pitcairn
and his nephew David Pitcairn (1786) were both
Fellows
in the period 1785 to 1791. The entries for 1786 to 1788 are: 1786 Dr
Pitcairn, 1787
Dr Dd. Pitcairn, 1788 Dr William Pitcairn. The 1786 entry could have
referred to
either. I have taken it as David.
(4)
James Robertson Barclay. The
entries are: 1787 Dr Robertson,
1788 Dr Ja.
Robertson, 1802 Dr Robertson Barclay. James Robertson changed his name from
Robertson to Barclay in October 1799 (Munk)
(5)
Henry Ainslie. I read the
1817 entry as Austie. There is no
Austie in
Munk. Ainslie is the nearest name I can find in Anon, 1818. The nearest
alternatives
are Ash and Ager in the list of Fellows, and Adams in the list of
Licentiates.
(6)
Thomas Hume
and
Clement Hue. I am not certain
that
entries I read
as Dr Hume were not Dr Hue, or vice versa, in some cases.
(7)
Henry James Cholmeley. I read
the 1823 entry as Cholmsley, but
there is
no Cholmsley, in Munk 1701-1825.
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