William Heberden the Younger (23 March 1767 – 19 February 1845) was a British physician. He was born in London the son of the medical doctor William Heberden the Elder and his wife Mary Wollaston. He was educated at

Charterhouse School (God having given, I gave) , established = , closed = , type = Public school Independent day and boarding school , religion = Church of England , president ...

and

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and followed his father into medicine becoming the Physician at

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(1793–1803) and Physician in Ordinary to the Queen (1806) and to George III (1809). He was elected a

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in 1791. He lived at 2

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from 1815 to 1820. He died in 1845, and was buried in the family vault at Windsor. He had married Elizabeth Catherine Miller in 1795; they had at least nine children.

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William Heberden papers, 1790–1837 (inclusive). H MS c25. Harvard Medical Library, Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Boston, Mass.
1767 births 1845 deaths People educated at Charterhouse School Medical doctors from London 19th-century English medical doctors 18th-century English medical doctors Fellows of the Royal Society Physicians-in-Ordinary {{UK-med-bio-stub