biography
pronunciation:
[ah(r)buhthnot]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1667–1735)
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| biography:
| Physician and writer, born in Inverbervie, Aberdeenshire, NE Scotland. UK. A close friend of Jonathan Swift and all the literary celebrities of the day, he was also a distinguished doctor and writer of medical works, and a physician in ordinary to Queen Anne (1705). In 1712 he published five satirical pamphlets against the Duke of Marlborough, called The History of John Bull, which was the origin of the popular image of John Bull as the typical Englishman. He helped to found the Scriblerus Club, and was the chief contributor to the Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus (1741). |
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