Charles Feake (c.1716–1762) was an English physician and

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Life

He was the son of Samuel Feake (died 1757) of Durrington Hall in

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from 1720. He was born in

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, West Bengal, where his father was governor of Fort William (1718 to 1723). He was educated at Stoke Newington (Mr Stuckey), at

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for three years, and

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where he matriculated in 1732, later graduating later M.B. in 1738 and M.D. in 1743. Feake was physician to

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, from 1745, when for the first time the hospital took on a third physician. He became a Fellow of the

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in 1745 and a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1748; and gave the

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in 1749. Feake died on 2 August 1762. His library was sold in 1763.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Feake, Charles 1762 deaths 18th-century English medical doctors Fellows of the Royal Society Year of birth uncertain People educated at Newcome's School