Person Freind; John (1675 - 1728) Freind John Friend 1675 - 1728 British Male Croughton, near Brackley, Northamptonshire, England 1675 London 26 July 1728 Burial: Hitcham, near Maidenhead, Buckinghamshire

Jermyn Street, Westminster (1718)

Physician, chemist Chemistry Medicine Education: Westminster School; Christ Church, Oxford. BA (1698), MA (1701), BMed (1703), DMed (by diploma 1707) Career: First involvement with Royal Societycame with publication of an account of his dissection of a hydrocephalic child in 'Philosophical Transactions' (1699). Early renown based on his 'Emmenologia', a treatise on menstruation (1703). Friend of Voltaire. Lecturer on Chemistry at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (1704); Physician to the English forces in Spain accompnying the Earl of Peterborough (1705-1707); travelled to Italy, where he met Giorgio Baglivi (FRS 1698) and Giovanni Maria Lancisi (FRS 1706); Physician to the Duke of Ormonde in his campaign in Flanders (1712); practised in London (1713-death); MP for Launceston (1722-1724, 1725-1727); a Jacobite, he became involved in the plot of his friend, Francis Atterbury, and was imprisoned in the Tower of London on a charge of high treason (1723) but was released at the insistence of Richard Mead (FRS 1703) who is said to have refused to treat Sir Robert Walpole until he agreed to free Freind; Physician to George II when Prince of Wales (1724) and to Queen Caroline (1727); Governor of the Bridewell and Bethlehem Hospitals; died of a violent fever Memberships: FRCP (1716) Son of William Friend, Rector of Croughton; married Anne, daughter of Thomas Morice, Paymaster of the Forces in Portugal Fellow 20/03/1712 Sources: Bulloch's Roll; DNB; DSB; Foster; Thomas; Sedgwick Notes: Proposed by John Keill Freind's 'Opera Omnia Medica' contains a comprehensive background to Freind's life and times References: J S Rowlinson, 'John Freind: physician, chemist, Jacobite, and friend of Voltaire's' in NR 2007 vol 61 pp 109-127 ©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 'Emmenologia' (1703); 'Praelectiones chymicae' (1709); The History of Physick' (1723); all three are incorporated in 'Opera Omnia Medica' which was donated to the Royal Society Library by Sir John Rowlinson to mark his retirement as Chair of the Library Committee in November 2005 https://pictures.royalsociety.org/image-rs-19533 1675 - 26 Jul 1728 NA5680 21/11/2001 Andyg Pmab 27/11/2024 RS_NET\keithm Yes http://viaf.org/viaf/22209566 fe8e44a4-82ab-4165-a509-6802f970bf8c