biography
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| (c.1460–1524)
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| biography:
| Physician and scholar, born in Canterbury, Kent, SE England, UK. He studied at Oxford, was elected fellow of All Souls in 1484, and studied to be a physician at Padua. One of the earliest champions of the ‘new learning’, he taught Greek to Erasmus and Sir Thomas More. About 1500 Henry VII made him tutor to Prince Arthur. As king's physician to Henry VII and Henry VIII, he practised in London. In 1518 he founded the Royal College of Physicians, becoming its first president, and took Catholic orders in 1520. |
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