Henry Richardson

c.1713-1788

Vol II

Pg 137

b.c.1713 d.18 March 1788

MD Leyden(1735) Ex LRCP(1738)

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Below is the biography as originally published in 1878.

Henry Richardson, M.D., was the son of John Richardson of Alnwick, an Extra-Licentiate of the College already mentioned, and was born there about 1713. He was a doctor of medicine of Leyden, of 1735 (D.M.I. de efficaciâ Exercitationum in sanitate tuenda, 4to.),then practising at Alnwick,in Northumberland, and was admitted an Extra-Licentiate of the College on the 28th of June, 1738. He survived just half a century, dying on the 18th March, 1788, aged seventy-five. His eldest son James, baptized at Alnwick 2nd August, 1745, was bred a physician: he graduated at Edinburgh in 1770, and settled at Wakefield.

William Munk

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