John Fothergill ( 1712 - 1780 )

Birth: Carr End, Wensleydale, Yorkshire, England (08 March 1712) Death: Harper Street, London (26 December 1780) Burial: Society of Friends' cemetery, Winchmore Hill Profession: Physician Education: Sedbergh School, Yorkshire; studied medicine in Edinburgh and Leyden Career: Apprenticed to Benjamin Bartlett, apothecary in Bradford (1718-1736); set up practice in London (1740); helped to found the Ackworth School, and left itan endowment in perpetuity in his Will; wrote "Some account of the late Peter Collinson" (1770); with Benjamin Franklin and David Barclay, he tried to avert an American rebellion Membership: Fellow Election Date: 23/06/1763.