Person Dimsdale; Thomas (1712 - 1800) Dimsdale Thomas 1712 - 1800 Male 06 or 29 May 1712 30 December 1800 Burial: Quakers' burial-ground at Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire

Education: Pupil to his father; St Thomas' Hospital, London; MD (1761, King's College, Aberdeen) Career: Set up practice in Hertford (1834); served as a volunteer medical assistant to the Duke of Cumberland's army in the Rebellion (1745); went to Russian and inoculated Empress Catherine and her son, Grand Duke Paul, against small pox, for which he received £12,000 and was made a baron; returned to England and opened a banking house in Cornhill, London (retired from this 1776); on the instruction of George III, inoculated Omai [Mai], one of the first Pacific Islanders to visit Europe (1774); MP for Hertford (1780 until his retirement 1790); went to Russia to incoculate Grand Dukes Alexander and Constantine (1781) Memberships: Bath Agricultural Society 4th son of John Dimsdale, surgeon, and his wife Susan, daughter of Thomas Bowyer of Albury Hall, Hertfordshire; married 1) (13 July 1739) daughter of Nathanael Brassey of Roxwell (she died 1745?); their 2nd son was Nathaniel Dimsdale (FRS 1805); 2) (17 June 1746) Anne, daughter of John Iles "a relation of his first wife" (Gentleman's Magazine); 3) (3 November 1779) Elizabeth, daughter of his cousin, Joseph Dimsdale of Bishop's Stortford Fellow 16/03/1769 Admitted 11 May 1769 Sources: Bulloch's Roll; DNB; DQB Ward, L. 2022. 'The Empress and the English Doctor: How Catherine the Great defied a deadly virus' (Oneworld Publications) References: John H Appleby, 'The Royal Society and the Tartar Lamb' in NR 1997 vol 51 pp 23-34 Notes: DNB provides alternative birth date of 29 May 1712; this date also in History of Parliament : House of Commons 1754-1790 (1964). ©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 https://pictures.royalsociety.org/image-rs-13459 6 or 29 May 1712 - 30 Dec 1800 NA7316 21/11/2001 Andyg Pmab 28/03/2023 RS_NET\JonathanB Yes da31c788-bffc-4735-a33d-a1bdc1ebe032