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Authorised form of nameFerris; Samuel (1757 - 1831)
Other forms of surnameBates
Dates1757 - 1831
NationalityBritish
Place of birthWarminster, Wiltshire, England
Date of birth25 March 1757
Place of deathExmouth, Devon
Date of death18 September 1831
DatesAndPlacesBaptism:
St Denys, Warminster, Wiltshire
Burial:
Littleham, Exmouth
OccupationPhysician
ActivityEducation:
MD (1784, Edinburgh); LCP (1785)
Career:
Apprenticed to Samuel Martin of the Upholder's Company (1 May 1771); made a freeman of the Upholder's Company (1 June 1778); apprenticed to a Surgeon-apothecary, Timothy Healey, surgeon of Berkhampstead, Hertfordshire (1779-1780); came to London and attended lectures of William Hunter; completed medical studies in Edinburgh; President, Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh (1784); became Licentiate of College of Physicians (1785); practised in Missenden possibly with Benjamin Bates; then returned to London; left London due to worsening asthma and practised medicine in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire; became a magistrate of the county of Buckinghamshire
Memberships:
FSA (December 1790)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election30/03/1797
RelationshipsOne of seven children of Henry Ferris, maltster and his wife Jane; married (1787) Ann Reddall of Beaconsfield (died 4 May 1820); father of Samuel Bates Ferris (b 1788)
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1830-1831 No 7 p 84
Notes:
Index to BR gives '[Bates]' after his forename, indicating that this was perhaps a middle name; however it does not appear in BR itself, the obituary in Proceedings, or in Munk. The name Samuel Bates Ferris was used in his Times death notice ( (23 September 1831) but not in his baptismal record or on his gravestone.
Mentioned in poem describing Exmouth Ball held at New Rooms Beacon Hill, 10 July 1818 - "There was grave Dr Ferris (to learning no stranger)"
Information on Date of Birth and burial place,career, addresses, use of name Bates, mention in poem and relationships from David Ferriss
CodeNA2912
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
EC/1797/04Ferris, Samuel: certificate of election to the Royal Society
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