| Authorised form of name | Willughby; Charles (c.1630 - 1694); physician |
| Other forms of surname | Willoughby |
| Dates | c.1630 - 1694 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | County Cork, Ireland, Europe |
| Date of birth | c. 1630 |
| Place of death | Dublin, Ireland, Europe |
| Date of death | c. September 1694 |
| DatesAndPlaces | September 1684 or 1695 |
| Occupation | Physician |
| Activity | Education:
?Trinity College, Dublin (BA 1649); Merton College, Oxford (MA 1652); Incorporated at Cambridge (1655); Padua (MD 1663)
Career:
Fellow of Merton (1649); practised in Dublin; Donegal Lecturer at Trinity College, Dublin (1692)
Memberships:
Fellow of the Irish College of Physicians (1667; President in 1676); Dublin Philosophical Society |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 25/07/1683 |
| Proposer | Edward Wetenhall |
| Other Royal Society activity | Corresponded with George Tollet (FRS 1713) on mathematical matters (1685) |
| Relationships | Parents: Sir Francis Willoughby, governor of Galway |
| OtherInfo | Willughby enjoyed a lucrative practive in Dublin and was also particularly active in the Dublin Philosophical Society, where he presented numerous papers, and was on the Society's committee to draw up rules in 1684. He also wrote on the Dublin Bills of Mortality in 1691, which was related to the topic of 'political arithmetic', something John Graunt (FRS 1663) and William Petty (FRS 1660) were particularly interested in. He was inactive in the Royal Society and only paid his admission fee after his election. |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; Venn; Hunter; Foster; Burtchaell
References:
Kirkpatrick, T P C. 1921-1924. 'Charles Willoughby, M.D., Fellow of the King and Queen's College of Physicians', in Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy: Archaeology, Culture, History, Literature, vol. 36, pp. 239-248
Hoppen, K T. 1965. 'The Royal Society and Ireland. II', in Notes and Records, vol. 20, pp. 78-99
Notes:
Venn says his BA was from Dublin and Burtchaell says it was from Cambridge. Hoppen in DIB says on admission to Oxford in 1649 he is stated as being 'of Trinity College Dublin'. TCD has no names recorded in its entrance book between 1644 and 1652. Foster gives death date as 1695 |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/13817278 |
| Code | NA5352 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EL/W3/62 | Letter, from Charles Willughby to St George Ashe | 1685 |
| MS/390/82 | Bond of Charles Willoughby to the Treasurer of the Royal Society | 25 July 1683 |
| EL/T/46 | Letter, from George Tollet to Charles Willoughby | 4 July 1685 |