Samuel Ferris ( 1757 - 1831 )

Birth: Warminster, Wiltshire, England (25 March 1757) Baptism: St Denys, Warminster, Wiltshire Death: Exmouth, Devon 18 September 1831 Burial: Littleham, Exmouth Profession: Physician Education: MD (1784, Edinburgh); LCP (1785) Career: Apprenticed to Samuel Martin of the Upholder's Company (1 May 1771); made a freeman of the Upholder's Company (1 June 1778); apprenticed to a Surgeon-apothecary, Timothy Healey, surgeon of Berkhampstead, Hertfordshire (1779-1780); came to London and attended lectures of William Hunter; completed medical studies in Edinburgh; President, Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh (1784); became Licentiate of College of Physicians (1785); practised in Missenden possibly with Benjamin Bates; then returned to London; left London due to worsening asthma and practised medicine in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire; became a magistrate of the county of Buckinghamshire Memberships: FSA (December 1790) Membership: Fellow Election Date: 30/03/1797.