James Drake ( 1667 - 1707 )

Birth: Cambridge, England (1667) Death: Westminster (02 March 1707) Profession: Physician Education: School at Wivelingham; Eton College; Caius College, Cambridge; MB (1690), MD (1694) Career: Tory political pamphleteer; author of the comic 'The sham-lawyer: or the lucky extravagant' (1607); lost recently acquired post as commissioner for the sick & wounded as a result of his 'politically distasteful' publication 'Historia Anglo-Scotia (1703); was imprisoned or had his works burned publicly each year from 1702-1707; author of the anonymously published 'Memorial of the Church of England' (1705), a reward being offered to any who might identify the author; died of a fever (1707); author of the posthumously published (1707) 'Anthropologia nova: or, a new system of anatomy', to which Judith Drake wrote the preface Memberships: FRCP (1706) Membership: Fellow Election Date: 1/12/1701.