James Lind ( 1736 - 1812 )

Birth: Scotland (17 May 1736) Death: The house of his son-in-law, William Burnie, Russell Square, London (17 October 1812) Education: MD (1768, Edinburgh) Career: Accompanied Sir Joseph Banks to Iceland (1772); Physician to the Royal Household (from about 1777); mentor of Percy Bysshe Shelley while the latter was at Eton & thus possibly the inspiration for Mary Shelley's Victor Frankenstein Membership: Fellow Election Date: 18/12/1777.