Person Lashley; Thomas (fl 1766 - 1807); physician Lashley Thomas physician fl 1766 - 1807 British Male Great James Street, Bedford Row 08 February 1807 18070208

Barbados

Physician Medicine Colic Education: University of Edinburgh, MD (1766) Career: Went to Barbados after marrying Rebecca Hog without the approval of their families (1767) and pursued legal action against the Hog's of Newliston for her maintenance and inheritance; medical practice in Barbados; imprisoned as a debtor in King's Bench Prison, London (15 May 1794-c1805); from his will, he was a mortgage holder for 'Yorkshire plantation' in Barbados which used enslaved people for labour Married Rebecca Hog (1766) Fellow 24/11/1768 Admission fee paid by Nicholas Munckley MD FRS. Attended the Royal Society to be officially admitted in person on 25 November 1784 Sources: Bulloch's Roll; Thomson; JBO/27; UCL LBS; TNA References: King's (Queen's) Bench, Fleet, Marshalsea and Queen's Prisons: Miscellanea. Records of the King's Bench, Fleet, and Marshalsea prisons, Series PRIS 10. The National Archives, Kew, England Hog, Rebecca, and Thomas Lashley. 'In the Cause, Mrs Rebecca Hog, and Thomas Lashley, Her Husband; against Thomas Hogg [sic], Esq' (Edinburgh) 1791 Will of Doctor Thomas Lashley, Doctor of Physic and Fellow of the Royal Society, PROB 11/1459/36, The National Archives, Kew, England Stearns Raymond Phineas (1951), 'Colonial Fellows of the Royal Society of London, 1661-1788' in NR vol 8, no 2 pp 178-246 'Dr. Thomas Lashley', Legacies of British Slave-ownership database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146660623 [accessed 9th July 2020] Notes: Place, day and month of death from The European Magazine, and London Review, Volume 51 and Thomas Thomson 'History of the Royal Society' 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 Dissertatio medica inauguralis, de colica pictonum : quam, annuente summo numine, ex auctoritate ... Gulielmi Robertson ... pro gradu doctoratus ... (Edinburgh), 1766 - 1807 NA303 21/11/2001 Andyg Pmab 02/12/2025 RS_NET\louisianef yes http://viaf.org/viaf/56498985 bfda7078-c12c-4064-8b9c-584c6a8d10ea