Английская Википедия:David Hamilton (diarist)

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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use dmy dates Sir David Hamilton, FRS, MD (1663 – August 1721) was a Scottish physician to Queen Anne, during which appointment he kept a diary.[1]

Life

Born in Scotland, he entered the University of Leiden as a medical student on 30 October 1683. He graduated MD of the university of Reims in 1686. He was admitted a licentiate of the London College of Physicians in 1688, and fellow in 1703.[2]

Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1708, Hamilton became a leading practitioner in midwifery, and was successively physician to Queen Anne,[3] who knighted him, and to Caroline, Princess of Wales. He is said to have acquired a fortune of £80,000, which he lost in the South Sea Bubble. He died on 28 August 1721.[2]

Works

Hamilton wrote:[2]

  • An inaugural Dissertation for M.D. "De Passione Hysterica", Paris, 1686.
  • The Private Christian's Witness for Christianity, in opposition to the National and Erroneous Apprehensions of the Arminian, Socinian, and Deist of the Age, London, 1697.
  • The Inward Testimony of the Spirit of Christ to his outward Revelation, London, 1701. This and the previous work were anonymously published.
  • Tractatus Duplex: prior de Praxeos Regulis, alter de Febre Miliari, London, 1710; Ulm, 1711; English translation, London, 1737.

Notes

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Further reading

  • Philip Roberts (ed.), The Diary of Sir David Hamilton, 1709–1714 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975).
Attribution

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