Physician, born Théodore Turquet de Mayerne in Geneva, Switzerland. He studied in Geneva and Heidelberg and moved to Paris where he founded a medical practice and began to support the views of Paracelsus. Personal physician to King Henri IV, and eventually James I of England.
Knighted 1624. He died in Chelsea, London and was buried at St Martin-in-the-Fields.
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Theodore Mayerne
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John Calvin Lines, District Treasurer in the St John Ambulance Brigade, Metropolitan Corps, 1891-1923. Honorary Serving Brother in the Order of St John.
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