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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]
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]
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]
^ 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.)
^ 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
^ Nichols, John et al. (1812).
Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century, pp. 423-425 , p. 423, at
Google Books .
^
a
b Courtney, W.P. (1885). "Cromwell Mortimer," Dictionary of National Biography, pp. 118-119.
^
"MORTIMER, Hans Winthrop (1734-1807), of Caldwell Hall, Derbys" . History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 17 October 2017 .
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Royal Society Library and Archive catalogue
Nichols, John and Samuel Bentley. (1812). Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century. London: Nichols and Bentley.
OCLC 447914677
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