Person Ferris; Samuel (1757 - 1831) Ferris Samuel Bates 1757 - 1831 British Male Warminster, Wiltshire, England 25 March 1757 Exmouth, Devon 18 September 1831 Baptism: St Denys, Warminster, Wiltshire Burial: Littleham, Exmouth

38 Holborn (1778); John Street, Bedford Row; Harpur/Harper Street

Physician Education: 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) One 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) Fellow 30/03/1797 Sources: 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 International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 - 18 Sep 1831 NA2912 21/11/2001 Andyg Pmab 28/03/2023 RS_NET\JonathanB Yes 50201476-6b69-41a8-ab6c-597bef22356b