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RADCLIFFE, JOHN (1650-1714)

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 784 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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RADCLIFFE, See also:JOHN (1650-1714) , See also:English physician, was See also:born at See also:Wakefield in 165o. He matriculated at University See also:College, See also:Oxford, and after taking his degree in 1669 was elected to a fellowship at See also:Lincoln College, which he gave up in 1677 when, under the statutes of the college, he was called on to take orders. Graduating in See also:medicine in 1675, he practised first in Oxford, but in 1684 removed to See also:London, where he soon became one of the leading physicians. He frequently attended See also:William III. until 1699, wlEn he caused offence by remarking, as he looked at the See also:King's swollen ankles, that he would not have his legs for his three kingdoms. On the 1st of See also:November 1714 he died of See also:apoplexy at his See also:house in Carshalton. By his will he See also:left See also:property to University College for See also:founding two medical travelling fellowships and for other purposes. Other property was put at the disposal of his executors to use as they thought best, and was employed, among other things, in See also:building the Radcliffe See also:Observatory, See also:Hospital and Library at Oxford, and in enlarging St See also:Bartholomew's Hospital in London. Radcliffe was elected M.P. for Bramber in 1690 and for See also:Buckingham in 1713.

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