See also:SIMON See also:FORMAN (1552-1611)
, See also:English physician and astrologer, was See also:born in 1552 at Quidham, a small See also:village near See also:Wilton, See also:Wiltshire
.
At the See also:age of fourteen he became apprentice to a druggist at See also:Salisbury, but at the end of four years he exchanged this profession for that of a schoolmaster
.
Shortly afterwards he entered Magdalen See also:College, See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford, where he studied chiefly See also:medicine and See also:astrology
.
After continuing the same studies- in See also:- HOLLAND
- HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
- HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
- HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
- HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
- HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
- HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
- HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART
Holland he commenced practice as a physician in Philpot See also:Lane, See also:London, but as he possessed no diploma, he on this See also:account underwent more than one See also:term of imprisonment
.
Ultimately, however, he obtained a diploma from See also:Cambridge university, and established himself as a physician and astrologer at See also:Lambeth, where he was consulted, especially as a physician, by many persons of See also:rank, among others by the notorious countess of See also:Essex
.
He expired suddenly while See also:crossing the See also:Thames in a See also:boat on the 12th of See also:September 1611
.
A See also:list of See also:Forman's See also:works on astrology is given in See also:Bliss's edition of the Athenae Oxonienses; many of his MS. works are contained in the Bodleian Library, the See also:British Museum and the See also:Plymouth Library
.
A Brief Description of the Forman See also:MSS. in the Public Library,
.
Plymouth, was published in 1853
.
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