Edward Tyson (1651-1708), a physician, was known for his anatomical publications including that of an orangutan.
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Anita Guerrini, ‘Tyson, Edward (1651-1708)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, (Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/27961 [accessed 18 June 2013]).
Edward Baynard was a physician, poet, and Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. He was a proponent of cold balneotherapy.
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Mark S. R. Jenner, ‘Baynard, Edward (1641?-1717)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, (Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/1771 [accessed 19 June 2013]).
Sir Tancred Robinson was a naturalist, physician, and fellow of the Royal College of Physicians from 1685. He was appointed physician-in-ordinary to King George I 1714.
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G. S. Boulger, ‘Robinson, Sir Tancred (1657/8-1748)’, rev. Kaye Bagshaw, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, (Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2010 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/23873 [accessed 26 June 2013]).
William Cowper was a surgeon and an anatomist, elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1699. He became embroiled in a plagiarism scandal in 1698 when he was accused of copying Govard Bidloos anatomical work.
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Monique Kornell, ‘Cowper, William (1666/7-1710)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, (Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/6510 [accessed 4 July 2013]).
Sir Richard Manningham was a man-midwife and physician. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1719 and a licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians in the same year. He wrote a treatise on midwifery and taught courses on the subject for 20 guineas.
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Philip Rhodes, ‘Manningham, Sir Richard (bap. 1685, d. 1759)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, (Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2008 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/17982 [accessed 17 July 2013]).
Walter Harris (1647-1732) was a physician whose Catholicism caused him trouble early in his career. In 1682 he became a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians where from 1710 to 1732 he was Lumleian lecturer. He published several works on medicine.
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Elizabeth Lane Furdell, ‘Harris, Walter (1647-1732)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, (Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/12422 [accessed 18 July 2013]).
James Petiver was a botanist and entomologist who worked in England. He joined the Royal Society in 1695. He travelled little, getting his specimens locally or from contacts. He travelled to Leiden on behalf of Sloane to the auction of Paul Hermann’s collection in 1711. Like Sloane, he was a collector and had a collection of several thousand plants. All of these were purchased by Sloane, along with his books and manuscripts, after his death. Nowadays these all reside in the British Museum alongside Sloane’s collection.
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D. E. Allen, ‘Petiver, James (c.1665–1718)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2009 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/22041, accessed 8 June 2011].
“Fellow Details.” The Royal Society. [https://collections.royalsociety.org/DServe.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Persons&dsqPos=1&dsqSearch=%28%28text%29%3D%27Petiver%27%29, accessed August 17, 2017.]
Henrietta Howard (nee Hobart) married “Lord Suffolk’s third son from his first marriage” Charles Howard in 1706 (
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Matthew Kilburn, Howard , Henrietta, countess of Suffolk (c.16881767), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/13904, accessed 13 June 2011].
Sir John Chesshyre was a lawyer and one of the highest-earning counsel in Westminster Hall.
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David Lemmings, ‘Chesshyre , Sir John (1662-1738)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, (Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/5235 [accessed 1 Sept 2011]).
Henry Hyde, 2nd Earl of Clarendon, was a politician who served as Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland under James II. He went into self-imposed exile to avoid arrest after falling on the wrong side of the Glorious Revolution (1688), but returned to parliamentary politics in the 1690s.
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W. A. Speck, ‘Hyde, Henry, second earl of Clarendon (1638-1709)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2012 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/14329 [accessed 9 July 2013]).