Sir John Micklethwaite M.D. (1612–1682) was an English

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, who attended Charles II. He was President of the

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Life

John Micklethwaite was the son of Thomas Micklethwaite, rector of

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, and was baptised, 23 August 1612, in the church of

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, three miles from

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. He entered at the University of Leyden as a medical student in 1637, and took the degree of M.D. at the

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in 1638. He proceeded M.D. by incorporation at Oxford 14 April 1648. On 26 May 1643, Micklethwaite was appointed assistant physician at St. Bartholomew's Hospital to Dr John Clarke, whose eldest daughter he married, and he was elected physician 13 May 1653. The

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, 12 Feb. 1644, had recommended him for promotion, "in the place of Dr. Harvey, who hath withdrawn himself from his charge and is retired to the party in arms against the Parliament." He was elected a fellow of the

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11 November 1643, and delivered the Gulstonian lectures in 1644. He was elected censor seven times, was treasurer from 1667 to 1675, and president from 1676 to 1681. When Charles II in 1681 was taken ill at

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, Micklethwaite was sent for by

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, and attained much repute by his treatment of the king, on whose recovery he was knighted. He was physician in ordinary to the king. He died of acute

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29 July 1682, and was buried in the church of St. Botolph, Aldersgate, where his monument, with a long inscription, still remains. His death and achievements were celebrated in a broadside, ''An Elegy to commemorate and lament the Death of the most worthy Doctor of Physick, Sir John Micklethwaite''. His portrait, representing him in a flowing wig, was given to the College of Physicians by Sir Edmund King, and hung in the dining-room.

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External links

Royal College of Physicians website
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