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    John Coakley Lettsom FRS (1744 – 1 November 1815, also Lettsome) was an English physician and philanthropist born on Little Jost Van Dyke in the British...
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  • Lettsom is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: John Coakley Lettsom (1744–1815), English physician and philanthropist William Garrow Lettsom...
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    Interior Parts of North America, in the Years 1766, 1767 and 1768 (John Coakley Lettsom, ed.), p.263, (3d ed., London, 1781) (retrieved May 5, 2024). (Paywall)...
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    Royal Navy; and John Coakley Lettsom, the philanthropist and founder of the Medical Society of London. Cullen's student and later rival John Brown developed...
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    Sea Bathing Hospital in Margate, Kent was founded in 1791 by Dr John Coakley Lettsom, a Quaker physician and philanthropist, for the treatment of scrofula...
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    "Clematis". Garden Shrubs and their Histories. Lettsom, John Coakley (1786). Memoires of John Fothergill, M.D. "John Fothergill". Dictionary of medical eponyms...
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    Interior Parts of North America, in the Years 1766, 1767 and 1768 (John Coakley Lettsom, ed.), p.294, (3d ed., London, 1781) (retrieved May 5, 2024). Taylor...
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    Interior Parts of North America, in the Years 1766, 1767 and 1768 (John Coakley Lettsom, ed.), pp.328-329, (3d ed., London, 1781) (retrieved May 5, 2024)...
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    In the late 18th century, the town was chosen by the physician John Coakley Lettsom as the place in which he would build the Royal Sea Bathing Hospital...
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    known surgeons, physicians, scientists, writers and artists, such as John Coakley Lettsom, Astley Cooper, Michael Faraday, George Cruikshank and Charles Dickens...
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    scarcity, London : C. Dilly, 1787, 8vo., 56 p. / 3rd ed. Edited by John Coakley Lettsom. London : C. Dilly, 1787, 8vo., xxxix, 51 p. Media related to Mangelwurzel...
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  • in Williamsburg, Virginia. Medical Society of London founded by John Coakley Lettsom. Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau proposes the use of "muriatic acid...
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  • at St Margaret's, Westminster. Eliza was the youngest daughter of John Coakley Lettsom. Together they had fifteen children and Sir Henry Miers Elliot is...
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    Brazil and Uruguay. Lettsom was born into a Quaker family at Fulham in March 1805. His paternal grandfather John Coakley Lettsom was a famous physician...
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  • William Nanson Lettsom (1796–1865) was an English man of letters. He was the son of John Miers Lettsom, M.D. (son of John Coakley Lettsom), by Rachel, daughter...
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    two particular friends, Weeden Butler and John Coakley Lettsom, his efforts were distinct from those of John Howard, and the Quaker group including Elizabeth...
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  • noir du Canada anglais Roger L'Estrange (1616–1704, England, Po) John Coakley Lettsom (1744–1815, England, M/Nh) Jean Leurechon (1591–1670, France, R/Ma)...
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    the king. John Wilkes and Charles Churchill were among Jebb's friends, and he paid for the education of Churchill's son. John Coakley Lettsom was a critic...
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    Pettigrew, T. J. (1817). Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Late John Coakley Lettsom. Vol. 3. London: Nichols, son, and Bentley. p. 243. "Nassau, (New...
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    are jointly Grade II listed. Numbers 33–45 also date from this period. John Lettsom, a doctor, had a villa built at the southern end which was demolished...
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  • (19 January 1781) of John Kooystra, M.D., he became physician to the London dispensary, through the influence of John Coakley Lettsom. He was admitted a...
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  • choice library of classical books ultimately became the property of John Coakley Lettsom. About Christmas 1784 he suffered from over-exertion in walking,...
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    children, of John Elliot, of Pimlico Lodge, Westminster, colonel commandant of the Westminster volunteers, and a daughter of John Coakley Lettsom, M.D. He...
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    Royal College of Physicians on 30 September 1778. He was helped by John Coakley Lettsom, and soon acquired a practice. Sims was the first chairman and vice-president...
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    philanthropist John Coakley Lettsom for physicians, surgeons and apothecaries, who met to exchange medical news and confer about difficult cases. Lettsom served...
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    the United States. Govt. Print. Off. pp. 70. Lettsom, John Coakley (June 1780). "Letter from Dr Lettsom" . The Gentleman's Magazine . London. pp. 263–264...
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    and two honorary secretaries, the archivist and nine councillors. John Coakley Lettsom, had opened a dispensary in London in 1770, following which, in 1773...
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    two plates illustrating the restoration of a young man to life by John Coakley Lettsom and William Hawes, 1787, these all after Robert Smirke; Trial of...
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  • sea-bathing infirmary at Margate, of which Pridden was joint founder with John Coakley Lettsom, and for many years honorary secretary; a new vicarage at Caddington...
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    before being used as dispensary. It was founded in 1770 and opened by John Coakley Lettsom. James Sims was one of the physicians. It was well organised, well...
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