William Stukeley ( 1687 - 1765 )

Birth: Holbeach, Lincolnshire, England (07 November 1687) Death: Queen Square, London (03 March 1765) Burial: East Ham churchyard, Essex Research field: Antiquities Profession: Physician; Clergyman, Church of England; Author, medical and antiquarian Education: Free school at Holbeach; Corpus Christi College, Cambridge; MB (1708), MD (1719); studied anatomy under Mr Rolfe, a surgeon in Chancery Lane, and medicine under Richard Mead (FRS 1703) at St Thomas's Hospital Career: Practised in Boston, Lincolnshire (1710-1717), in London (1717-1726) and in Grantham, Lincolnshire (1726-1730), where his patients included members of the local aristocracy; ordained deacon and priest (1729); Vicar of All Saints, Stamford (1729-1747); Rector of St George-the-Martyr, Queen Square, London (1747-1765); friend of Sir Isaac Newton (FRS 1672); died of palsy; his collections of Roman coins, fossils, pictures and antiquities were sold after his death Memberships: FSA (1718); FRCP (1720); Freemason Membership: Fellow Election Date: 13/03/1718 Proposers: Edmond Halley Council: 1719-1720, 1725.