John Thorpe Jr. (1682-1750) began studying at University College, Oxford in 1698 and received his BA at Michaelmas in 1701, MA in 1704, MB in 1707 and MD in 1710. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1705 and was Undersecretary of the Royal Society. He assisted his friend Sir Hans Sloane in publishing the Society’s Philosophical Transactions. He married in 1715 and settled as a physician in Rochester before turning to studying architecture, antiquities and history of the county of Kent in 1734.
Reference:
Norman Moore and Rev. John Whyman, “John Thorpe (1682-1750) physician and antiquary” The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/27379, accessed 16 June 2011]).
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