Sir Edward Hulse, 1st Baronet (1682 – 10 April 1759) was an English physician.
Biography
Hulse was the eldest son of Dr.
Edward Hulse Edward Hulse may refer to:
*Sir Edward Hulse, 1st Baronet (c. 1682–1759) of the Hulse baronets
*Sir Edward Hulse, 2nd Baronet (1714–1800) of the Hulse baronets
*Sir Edward Hulse, 3rd Baronet (1744–1816), High Sheriff of Hampshire
*Sir Edward ...
. He graduated M.B. at
Emmanuel College, Cambridge
Emmanuel College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college was founded in 1584 by Sir Walter Mildmay, Chancellor of the Exchequer to Elizabeth I. The site on which the college sits was once a priory for Dominican mon ...
, in 1704, and M.D. in 1717. He joined the
College of Physicians of London
The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) is a British professional membership body dedicated to improving the practice of medicine, chiefly through the accreditation of physicians by examination. Founded by royal charter from King Henry VIII in 1 ...
in 1717, became censor for a first time in 1720, and councillor in 1750, 1751, and 1753. He was in leading physician's practice in London along with
John Freind John Freind may refer to:
*Sir John Freind (conspirator) or John Friend (died 1696), English civil servant; executed
*John Freind (physician) (1675–1728), English physician
*Sir John Freind Robinson, 1st Baronet
John Freind Robinson, 1st Baro ...
,
Richard Mead,
Hans Sloane, and others. He was one of Freind's sureties before the latter was committed to
the Tower. He is described as one of the `whig doctors,' and is said to have differed so seriously with Freind over the case of Lord Townshend that he withdrew, declaring that his lordship must die if Freind had his way (Townshend recovered, having declared he would live or die by the hands of Freind). He was first physician to
George II, and was made
a baronet on 7 February 1738–9. In 1745 he was attacked with others in several pamphlets, on their treatment of the Earl of Orford. He retired from practice some years before his death, and lived at his house on Dartford Heath, Kent. In 1738 he purchased the estate of Breamore, Hampshire, which is held by his successors in the title. In his old age he was possessed by the idea that he would die of want, a fear which his attendants overcame by putting guineas regularly into the pocket where he used to deposit his fees. He died on 10 April 1759, and was buried in the churchyard of Wilmington, Kent. A portrait by
Francis Cotes has been engraved by
James Watson
James Dewey Watson (born April 6, 1928) is an American molecular biologist, geneticist, and zoologist. In 1953, he co-authored with Francis Crick the academic paper proposing the double helix structure of the DNA molecule. Watson, Crick and ...
. He married, in 1713, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Richard Levett, knt., who had been lord mayor in 1700, and had issue by her. His son Edward, who succeeded to the title, was father of
Sir Samuel Hulse. Another son, Richard, inherited his house and manor at Dartford.
See also
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Hulse baronets
The Hulse Baronetcy, of Lincoln's Inn Fields in the County of Middlesex, is a title in the Baronetage of Great Britain. It was created on 7 February 1739 for Edward Hulse, Physician in Ordinary to Queen Anne, George I and George II. The third ...
References
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1682 births
1759 deaths
18th-century English medical doctors
Alumni of Emmanuel College, Cambridge
Members of the Royal College of Physicians