| Authorised form of name | Garth; Sir; Samuel (1661 - 1719) |
| Dates | 1661 - 1719 |
| Nationality | British |
| Date of birth | 1661 |
| Date of death | 18 January 1719 |
| DatesAndPlaces | Burial:
Harrow, Middlesex |
| Occupation | Physician; Poet |
| Activity | Education:
School at Ingleton, Co. Durham; Peterhouse, Cambridge. BA (1679/80), MA (1684), MD (1691). Leyden (admitted 1687); incorporated at Oxford (1694)
Career:
Physician in Ordinary to George I; Physician-General to the Army; active in trying to establish a dispensary where the poor could consult the best physicians, his poem 'The Dispensary' ridicules the apothecaries who fought against the idea
Honours:
Kt 1714
Memberships:
FRCP (1693); Kitcat Club
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 05/06/1706 |
| Relationships | Son of William Garth of Bowland Forest, Yorkshire; married Martha, daughter of Sir Henry Beaufoy of Emscote, Warwickshire |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; Venn; Innes Smith; Foster
References:
C C Booth, 'Sir Samuel Garth, FRS: The Dispensary Poet' in NR 1985-86 vol 40 pp 125-145
Notes:
Proposed by Sir Hans Sloane |
| Code | NA7754 |
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