Daniel Whistler ( 1619 - 1684 )

Birth: Walthamstow, Essex, England, Europe (c.1619) Death: England, Europe (11 May 1684) Burial: Christ Church, Newgate Street, London, England, Europe Occupation: Physician Research Field: Medicine Education: School at Thame, Oxfordshire; Trinity College, Oxford (BA 1639); Merton College, Oxford (MA 1644); Leyden (MD 1645); Incorporated at Oxford (1647) Career: Became a member of Gray's Inn (1644); Completed 'De morbo puerili Anglorum, quem patrio idiomate indigenae vocant 'The rickets'' (1645); Professor of Geometry at Gresham College, London (1648-1656); Linacre Reader at Oxford (1648); took care of seamen, injured in Dutch war (1653-4) with Ralph Bathurst; Physician to Bulstrode Whitelock's embassy to Sweden (1653-1654); Harveian orator at RCP (1659) Memberships: Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (1649; President 1683) Membership: Original Fellow Election Date: 20/05/1663 Council: 1663, 1666, 1674, 1676-77 Committee appointments include: Committee to consider of Mr Buckland's proposition to plant potatos through all parts of England (1662).