| Authorised form of name | Quatremain; William (c1618 - 1667); physician |
| Other forms of surname | Quarterman |
| Quartermain |
| Quartermaine |
| Dates | c 1618 - 1667 |
| Nationality | British |
| Date of birth | c 1618 |
| Date of death | 1667 |
| DatesAndPlaces | Burial:
St Martin in the Fields, London, England, Europe (11 June 1667) |
| Occupation | Physician |
| Activity | Education:
Brasenose College, Oxford; Magdalen Hall, Oxford (BA 1635; MA 1638); Pembroke College, Oxford (DMed 1657)
Career:
Physician to the Navy; Physician in Ordinary to Charles II (1660-death); MP for New Shoreham (1662-1667); Commissioner for Assessment for Westminster (1663-death), Middlesex (1664-death)
Memberships:
Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (1661)
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| Membership category | Original Fellow |
| Date of election | 20/05/1663 |
| RSActivity | Committee and panels:
Committee for dyeing (1666) |
| Other Royal Society activity | Proposed on 23 January 1661; Involved in experiments for the operation of kidney stones in dogs (1663) |
| Relationships | Parents: Walter Quatremain and Elizabeth Quatremain
Married: 1) Catherine; 2) Mary Dyke |
| OtherInfo | As a royalist, Quatremain followed the court into exile until the Restoration, where he worked as a physician. After this, he practiced primarily in Lewes, Sussex. During the plague in the 1660s, he went to York although when attending the Oxford session, Quatremain was appointed to the committee for the prevention of infection's spread. He invested in land reclamation schemes which were generally unprofitable. |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; Foster; Henning
Authority:
Second OtherFormOfName from Hunter
Notes:
The election date is Quatremain's re-election date into the Society after the grant of the second charter in April 1663. All Fellows admitted in a two-month window after this charter, until 22 June 1663, are considered Original Fellows. He was previously admitted into the Society on 20 March 1661. |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/111685468 |
| Code | NA5431 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| CLP/3i/27 | Papers, 'Several papers about dying [dyeing]' from The [Theodore] de Vaux | 1630-1666 |