Thomas Dimsdale ( 1712 - 1800 )

Birth: 06 or 29 May 1712 Death: 30 December 1800 Burial: Quakers' burial-ground at Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire Education: Pupil to his father; St Thomas' Hospital, London; MD (1761, King's College, Aberdeen) Career: Set up practice in Hertford (1834); served as a volunteer medical assistant to the Duke of Cumberland's army in the Rebellion (1745); went to Russian and inoculated Empress Catherine and her son, Grand Duke Paul, against small pox, for which he received £12,000 and was made a baron; returned to England and opened a banking house in Cornhill, London (retired from this 1776); MP for Hertford (1780 until his retirement 1790); went to Russia to incoculate Grand Dukes Alexander and Constantine (1781) Memberships: Bath Agricultural Society Membership: Fellow Election Date: 16/03/1769 Admitted 11 May 1769.