Hans Sloane ( 1660 - 1753 )

Birth: Killyleagh or White's Castle, County Down, Ireland, Europe (16 April 1660) Death: Chelsea, London, England, Europe (11 January 1753) Burial: Chelsea Old Church, London, England, Europe (18 January 1753) Occupation: Physician Research Field: Medicine; natural history; botany Education: Killyleagh school; when removed from school due to poor health continued education supported by the Hamilton Family of Killyleagh Castle; studied medicine at Apothecaries Hall, London (1679-1883); Pupil of Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, at the Jardin Royal, Paris and Montpellier (1683-1684); University of Orange (MD 1683); University of Oxford (DMed, by diploma 1701) Career: Went to Jamaica as personal physician to the 2nd Duke of Albemarle, Governor of Jamaica, where he worked as a doctor on slave plantations whilst collecting over 800 botanical specimens and other items of natural history with the assistance of planters and enslaved Africans (1687-1689); practised medicine in Bloomsbury, Middlesex (1689-1741); published multiple papers on his observations in Jamaica (1680s); Physician, Christ's Hospital (1694-1730); carried out the autopsy of Samuel Pepys PRS (1703); purchased the manor of Chelsea, Middlesex (1712); physician to Queen Anne and George I (1712-1727); Physician to the Army (1714); first British physician to receive a baronetcy (1716); founded the Botanic Garden at Chelsea on behalf of the Society of Apothecaries (1721); First Physician to George II (1727); experimented with inoculation of smallpox inoculating the children of the Princess of Wales; also advocated the use of quinine in treatment of malaria and eye ailments; one of the promoters of the colony of Georgia (1732); a founding governor of London's Foundling Hospital (1739), retired from general practice (1741); benefactor to Christ's Hospital and the Bodleian Library and to many other individuals and institutions; bequeathed his collection to King and Parliament in return for a payment of £20,000 to his heirs (his collection was estimated to have cost him £100,000).