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26: 204: 124:, to whom about 1784 he offered an annuity of £100 for life, and whom he attended on his deathbed, while in 1788 he presented Burke, of whom he was an intimate friend, with £1000, and offered to repeat the gift every year "until your merit is rewarded as it ought to be at court." 166: 219: 102:, which contained suggestions for improving the hygiene of army hospitals. In his latter years he withdrew altogether into private life. He was elected a 267: 272: 257: 224: 262: 120:
The circle of his friends included some of the most distinguished literary men of the age. He was warmly attached to Dr.
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He died on 11 December 1797 aged 75, leaving his house and part of his fortune to his grandnephew, Dr.
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following the latter's ultimately fatal collapse while speaking at a debate in the House on the
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
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The Roll of the Royal College of Physicians of London, Volume 2
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He was on the premises of the House of Lords when he attended
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as Surgeon General of the British Army in 1758, and served in
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and in 1760 the Harveian Oratory. In 1764 he published
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Richard Brocklesby (priest)

English
physician
Minehead
Somerset
Ballitore
Ireland
Edmund Burke
Edinburgh
Leiden
John Pringle
Germany
Seven Years' War
Royal College of Physicians
Goulstonian Lectures
Croonian Lecture
Fellow of the Royal Society
the Earl of Chatham
American War of Independence
Samuel Johnson
Thomas Young
St Clement Danes
"Library and Archive"
public domain
Chisholm, Hugh
Brocklesby, Richard
Encyclopædia Britannica
Categories
1722 births

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