Hugh Chamberlen ( c 1630 - ? 1720 )

Birth: The parish of St Anne's, Blackfriars, London, England (c 1630) Death: after November 1720 Profession: Physician Career: Made a proposal for ridding the city of the plague (1666); travelled to France (1670); practised in London as a physician and man-midwife; Physician-in-Ordinary to the King (1673); attended the confinements of Queen Mary of Modena; regarded as something of a charlatan, he was fined £10 by the Royal College of Physicians (1688); pardoned for treason (1688); devised a project for a land bank (1690), on the collapse of which he was forced to flee to Scotland (1699); made proposals for a land bank there and wrote in support of the union of England and Scotland; retired to Amsterdam, where he practised medicine Membership: Fellow Election Date: 6/04/1681 Proposers: John Houghton.