Born Canterbury. Studied at Oxford, Rome and Vicenza. Physician to Henry VIII. After 11 years as a doctor he became a priest, giving away his wealth to promote the study of medicine and establishing the Royal College of Physicians, of which he was the First President 1518 - 24.
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Thomas Linacre
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Linacre bust
This bust is fixed to the wall of the building in the garden seen in the pict...
Thomas Linacre
In a house on this site lived Thomas Linacre, physician 1460 - 1524. Corpora...
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Hippocrates
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Capt. J. Calvin Lines
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Person, Armed Forces, Emergency Services, Medicine, Politics & Administration
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W. Rea Edwards, OBE, ACA
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1 memorial
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