Richard Pulteney ( 1730 - 1801 )

Birth: Loughborough, Leicestershire, England (17 February 1730) Death: Blandford, Dorset (13 October 1801) Burial: Langton churchyard, Dorset Profession: Apothecary Surgeon Research Field: Botany, conchology Education: Loughborough Grammar School; MD (1764, Edinburgh University) Career: Apprenticed to an apothecary, Harris, in Loughborough; both moved to Mountsorrel during the apprenticeship; practised as a surgeon and apothecary, Leicester; wrote for 'Gentleman's magazine'; came to London; Physician to William Pulteney, Earl of Bath (1764); practised as a physician, Blandford, Dorset; died of pneumonia; bequeathed his museum of shells and minerals, and his herbarium, to the Linnean Society; monument in Blandford Church Memberships: Extra-licenciate RCP (1765); FLS (1790); FRSE (1793) Membership: Fellow Election Date: 25/11/1762.