Roger_Bosworth

Roger Bosworth

Roger Bosworth

English physician and politician

Roger Bosworth also Robert (ca. 1607 – 1660) was an English physician and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1659 to 1660.

Bosworth was from a lesser gentry family of Woolhope, Herefordshire. He studied medicine at Brasenose College, Oxford and was made Doctor Regio Beneficio on 31 January 1643 and created D.Med. on 4 March. 1643.[1] He practiced medicine in Hereford.

In 1659, Bosworth was elected Member of Parliament for Hereford in the Third Protectorate Parliament.[2] He was re-elected MP for Hereford in April 1660 for the Convention Parliament.[2]

References

  1. [1]
    'Alumni Oxonienses, 1500-1714: Bludworth-Brakell', Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714: Abannan-Kyte (1891), pp. 142-170.Date accessed: 12 July 2011
  2. [2]
    "BOSWORTH, Roger (c.1607-60), of Hereford. | History of Parliament Online". www.historyofparliamentonline.org. Retrieved 6 February 2024.
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