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Authorised form of nameCombe; Charles (1743 - 1817)
Dates1743 - 1817
NationalityBritish
Place of birthSouthampton Street, Bloomsbury, London, England
Date of birth23 September 1743
Place of deathHis house in Vernon Place, Bloomsbury Square, London
Date of death18 March 1817
Dates and placesBurial:
Bloomsbury cemetery, Brunswick Square, London
ActivityEducation:
Harrow School; MD (1784, University of Glasgow)
Career:
Took over his father's business as an apothecary (1768); practiced as an acchouceur (after 1784); Physician to the British Lying-in Hospital (1789); was associated with William Hunter
Memberships:
FSA (1771)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election11/01/1776
RelationshipsFather of Taylor Combe FRS (1807); father of Charles Combe junior (1776-1808), who attended Exeter College Oxford, and was later a barrister, though nerver a FRS.
SourcesSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Royal Society codeNA6849
Archives associated with this Fellow
Reference numberTitleDate
MM/6/34Draft letter from Sir Joseph Banks, Soho Square, to Dr Charles Combe[April 1790]
EC/1775/23Combe, Charles: certificate of election to the Royal Society
L&P/11/154/1Paper, 'Account of an elephants tusk in which the iron head of a spear was found' by Charles Combe1800
L&P/11/154Paper, 'Account of an elephants tusk in which the iron head of a spear was found' by Charles Combe1800
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