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JOHN RADCLIFFE (1650-1714)

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 784 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN See also:RADCLIFFE (1650-1714)  , See also:English physician, was See also:born at See also:Wakefield in 165o . He matriculated at University See also:College, See also:Oxford, and after taking his degree in 1669 was elected to a fellowship at See also:Lincoln College, which he gave up in 1677 when, under the statutes of the college, he was called on to take orders . Graduating in See also:medicine in 1675, he practised first in Oxford, but in 1684 removed to See also:London, where he soon became one of the leading physicians . He frequently attended See also:William III. until 1699, wlEn he caused offence by remarking, as he looked at the See also:King's swollen ankles, that he would not have his legs for his three kingdoms . On the 1st of See also:November 1714 he died of See also:apoplexy at his See also:house in Carshalton . By his will he See also:left See also:property to University College for See also:founding two medical travelling fellowships and for other purposes . Other property was put at the disposal of his executors to use as they thought best, and was employed, among other things, in See also:building the See also:Radcliffe See also:Observatory, See also:Hospital and Library at Oxford, and in enlarging St See also:Bartholomew's Hospital in London . Radcliffe was elected M.P. for Bramber in 1690 and for See also:Buckingham in 1713 .

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