| Authorised form of name | Doody; Samuel (1656 - 1706); apothecary and botanist |
| Dates | 1656 - 1706 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Staffordshire, England, Europe |
| Date of birth | 28 May 1656 |
| Date of death | November 1706 |
| DatesAndPlaces | Burial:
Hampstead, London, England, Europe (3 December 1706) |
| Occupation | Apothecary |
| Research field | Botany |
| Activity | Career:
Succeeded to his father's business in the Strand (1696); Curator of the Chelsea Physic Garden (1693-death); assisted John Ray (FRS 1667) with his 'Historia Plantarum' |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 27/11/1695 |
| Age at election | 39 |
| Other Royal Society activity | Very occasional correspondent on medical and botanical observations (1696);
Appointed Scrutator (1696);
Had a medical paper published in the 'Philosophical Transactions' (1697) |
| Relationships | Parents: John Doody |
| OtherInfo | Doody went on to be described by French botanist Antoine de Jussieu (1686-1758) as the 'Coryphaeus', the leader in the circle of London botanists. Doody was also closely linked to Sir Hans Sloane (FRS 1685), who later conveyed ownership of the Apothecaries' Garden at Chelsea to the Society of Apothecaries. |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; Armytage
References:
Armytage, W H G. 1954-55. 'The Royal Society and the Apothecaries', in Notes and Records, vol. 11, pp. 22-37 |
| Code | NA5742 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| MS/390/104 | Bond of Samuel Doody to the Treasurer of the Royal Society | 30 November 1695 |
| EL/K/21 | Letter, from Charles King to Samuel Doody, dated at Little Wirley | 14 December 1699 |
| CLP/14i/46 | Paper, 'A relation of a strange symptom attended an hydrops pectoris and the reason of it as it appeared on dissection of the body' by Sam [Samuel] Doudy [Doody] | [1690s] |