Cromwell_Mortimer

Cromwell Mortimer

Cromwell Mortimer

British physician, secretary of the Royal Society

Cromwell Mortimer FRS (June 1702 – 7 January 1752) was a British physician, antiquary[1] and second secretary of the Royal Society from 1730 to 1752.[2]

Early life

Mortimer was the second son of John Mortimer of Topping Hall in Hatfield Peverel, Essex, and his third wife Elizabeth Sanders, daughter of Samuel Sanders.[3] His father's first wife was Dorothy Cromwell, daughter of Richard Cromwell. He was awarded his M.D. in 1724 at University of Leyden.[4] He married and had one son Hans Winthrop Mortimer who became Member of Parliament for Shaftesbury.[5]

Career

Mortimer's medical practice developed in London after he was admitted to the College of Physicians in 1725.[4] He was elected to membership in the Royal Society in 1728; and those signing that nomination letter were: Francis Clifton; Claudius Amyand (surgeon); Hans Sloane.[6]

Notes

  1. [1]
    Bevan, Michael. "Cromwell, Mortimer". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/19341. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. [2]
    Gibbs, F.W. "Cromwell Mortimer, F.R.S.: Secretary, Royal Society, 1730-1752," Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 7, No. 2 (Apr., 1950), pp. 259-263; Past Physical Sciences Secretaries
  3. [3]
    Nichols, John et al. (1812). Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century, pp. 423-425, p. 423, at Google Books.
  4. [4]
    Courtney, W.P. (1885). "Cromwell Mortimer," Dictionary of National Biography, pp. 118-119.
  5. [5]
    "MORTIMER, Hans Winthrop (1734-1807), of Caldwell Hall, Derbys". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 17 October 2017.
  6. [6]
    Royal Society Library and Archive catalogue

References

  • Nichols, John and Samuel Bentley. (1812). Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century. London: Nichols and Bentley. OCLC 447914677


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