Sir Clifton Wintringham, 1st Baronet (bapt. 20 January 1710''England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975'' – 9 January 1794) was an English military physician.

Life

He was the eldest son of physician

Clifton Wintringham senior Clifton Wintringham senior (baptized 1689 – 1748) was an English medical practitioner, appointed Physician at York County Hospital in March 1746. Life Wintringham was educated at Jesus College, Cambridge, and was admitted on 3 July 1711 as an ...

, and was educated at

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. He had a distinguished medical career, being elected

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in 1742, and becoming joint military physician to the forces, with John Pringle, in 1756. He was also physician in ordinary to George III, from 1762 when he was knighted. He was created baronet in 1774. Joseph Robertson, a friend, edited Wintringham's ''De morbis quibusdam commentarii'' (1782), and dedicated to him ''An Essay on Punctuation''. A memorial to Wintringham, by Thomas Banks, was erected in

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, marking the high standing with which he had been seen during life.Dictionary of British Sculptors, 1660-1851, Rupert Gunnis

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Wintringham, Clifton 1710 births 1794 deaths Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge 18th-century English medical doctors Fellows of the Royal Society Knights Bachelor Baronets in the Baronetage of Great Britain