biography
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| lived:
| (1650–1714)
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| biography:
| Physician, born in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, N England, UK. He studied at Oxford, and became the most popular physician of his time in London. Despite being a Jacobite, he attended William III and Queen Mary. In 1713 he was elected MP for Buckingham. He bequeathed the bulk of his large property to form the Radcliffe Library, Infirmary, and Observatory at Oxford. |
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