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Motherby
Motherby is a surname, and may refer to: * George Motherby (bapt. 1731 – 1793), English physician and medical writer * Robert Motherby Robert Motherby (23 December 1736 – 13 February 1801) was an English merchant in based in East Prussia, and a friend of Immanuel Kant. Early life Robert Motherby was born in Kingston upon Hull, the son of George Motherby (born 20 December ... (1736–1801), English merchant in East Prussia, brother of George Motherby * William Motherby (1776–1847), physician, son of Robert Motherby {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Motherby
Robert Motherby (23 December 1736 – 13 February 1801) was an English merchant in based in East Prussia, and a friend of Immanuel Kant. Early life Robert Motherby was born in Kingston upon Hull, the son of George Motherby (born 20 December 1688) and his wife Anne (nee Hotham); the physician George Motherby (died 1793) was his brother. His father died in 1748 when Robert was still young. Robert moved to Kongsberg around 1751, after Joseph Green, a fellow merchant from Hull, was seeking a reliable young Englishman who could become his partner. Motherby settled well in Konigsberg, despite a lack of German language skills and eventually took over ''Green, Motherby & Co.'' completely. In 1762 he married Charlotte Toussaint, a woman from a Huguenot family. She was one of the daughters of Jean Claude Toussaint (1709-1774) and his wife Catherine, originally from France. Jean Claude Toussaint was a co-owner of the trading house ''Toussaint & Laval''. Charlotte and Robert Motherby h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Motherby
George Motherby M.D. (baptised 1731 – 1793) was an English physician and medical writer. He is noted for the early definition of the medical term ''placebo'' in the 1785 edition of his medical dictionary. Life He was born in Yorkshire, the son of George Motherby and his wife Anne Hotham; Robert Motherby was a younger brother, and his elder sister Anne married the London bookseller George Robinson (1736–1801). He gained an MD degree at King's College, Aberdeen in 1767. Motherby then practised as a physician at Königsberg, in the Kingdom of Prussia. Through Robert, he came to be on good terms there with Johann Georg Hamann; and vaccinated one of his sons. Motherby was later at Highgate, Middlesex. He died at Beverley, Yorkshire, in July 1793. Works Motherby compiled ''A new Medical Dictionary'', London, 1775 (2nd edit. 1785). Other editions, revised by George Wallis, M.D., appeared in 1791, 1795, and 1801; the two final editions were in two volumes. The articles included ci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |