Cromwell Mortimer (c.1693-1752) was a physician and antiquary who gained his MD at Leiden University. He became Licentiate at the Royal College of Physicians in 1725, Fellow of the Royal Society in 1728, and Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1729. In 1729, at the request of Sir Hans Sloane, he moved to Bloomsbury Square to assist him in prescribing medicine for his patients.
Reference:
W. P. Courtney, ‘Mortimer, Cromwell (c.1693-1752)’, rev. Michael Bevan, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, (Oxford University Press, 2004 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/19341 [accessed 2 Aug 2013]).
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