John Freake (priest)
John Freke may refer to: * John Freke (MP) (c. 1591–1641), English politician * John Freke (surgeon) (1688–1756), English surgeon * John Redmond Freke Sir John Redmond Freke, 3rd Baronet (died 13 April 1764) was a baronet in the Baronetage of Great Britain and a member of parliament in the Irish House of Commons. He was the younger son of Sir Ralph Freke, 1st Baronet, by his wife Elizabeth, t ...

John Freke (MP)
John Freke (c. 1591 – 28 November 1641) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1614 and 1624. Freke was the son of Sir Thomas Freke of Iwerne Courtney, Dorset and Elizabeth Taylor. He studied at Hart Hall, Oxford on 31 October 1605, aged 14. He then studied law at the Middle Temple in 1610. In 1614, he was elected Member of Parliament for Wareham. In 1621 he was elected MP for Weymouth and Melcombe Regis. He was re-elected MP for Weymouth in 1624. He purchased Cerne Abbey from the Crown in 1625 and was knighted in 1631. He was appointed High Sheriff of Dorset for January to October, 1636. He married twice: firstly Arundell, the daughter of Sir George Trenchard of Wolveton, Charminster, Dorset, with whom he had a son, who predeceased him and a daughter, and secondly Jane, the daughter and coheiress of Sir John Shurley of Isfield, Sussex and widow of Sir Walter Covert of Slaugham, Sussex with whom he had 2 sons and 2 daughters. His youngest ...
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John Freke (surgeon)
John Freke (1688–1756) was an English surgeon. Together with Percival Pott he was instrumental in separating the profession of surgeon from that of barber. Freke was the son of a rural minister from Ockford Fitzpaine, Dorset. At the age of 17 he was apprenticed to a prominent London surgeon, Richard Blundell. He became an assistant surgeon at St Bartholomew's Hospital (known as Barts) in 1726, and one year later was put in charge of the anatomical and surgical preparations. In 1727 the Governors of Barts had decided that there was a requirement for some surgeons to be specialists, and Freke was appointed to deal with diseases of the eye, becoming the first ophthalmic surgeon. He was a surgeon at Barts from 1729 to 1755 and was a Governor of the hospital from 1736 to 1756. He trained Edward Nourse who in turn trained Percival Pott. In 1745 he established the Company of Surgeons. He designed several medical instruments including an improved obstetric forceps. He was the ...
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