1670 - 1738 (68 years)
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Name |
Samuel Palmer |
Suffix |
FRS |
Birth |
5 Jan 1670 |
Gender |
Male |
Death |
20 Apr 1738 |
London, England |
Person ID |
I79390 |
My Genealogy |
Last Modified |
11 May 2016 |
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Notes |
- Surgeon, St Bartholomew's Hospital, London.
Fellow of the Royal Society5 December 1728 ? 20 April 1738
he was instrumental in improving the conditions at Bart's two outhouses. Palmer held the post as the Lock surgeon for twenty years from 1700 until his retirement in March, 1720. In keeping with the contemporary traditions of inter-familial medical apprenticeship and nepotism, PaImer successfulIy nominated his son-in-law, Peter Sainthill, to replace him. According to the governors' minutes. Sainthill had "served his Apprenticeship with the aforesaid Mr Palmer his Father in Law, and had often been employed by hirn to dispense Medicine and dress the Poor in the said hospital.'"
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