Clifton Wintringham senior

Clifton Wintringham senior (baptied 1689 – 1748) was an English medical practitioner, appointed Physician at York County Hospital in March 1746.[1]

Life

Wintringham was educated at Jesus College, Cambridge.[2] He practised in York for over 35 years, and Judges Lodgings, York was built as his private residence. He authored several books and attended the Earl of Carlisle at nearby Castle Howard. In the period 1715 to 1730 he kept meteorological records, and notes on his patients.[3] He later published data, one of a number of physicians of the time concerned to understand the relationship of climate and disease.[4]

Family

Wintringham was married twice: his first wife Elizabeth was daughter of Richard Nettleton of Earls Heath, Yorkshire. Sir Clifton Wintringham (1710–1794) was their the eldest son.[1] His second wife Katherine was daughter of John Liddell (later known as Liddell-Bright), son of Sir Henry Liddell, 3rd Baronet.[5]

Notes

  1. 1 2 Lane, Joan. "Wintringham, Clifton". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/29781. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. ↑ "Clifton Wintringham (WNTN705C)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  3. ↑ Andrea A. Rusnock (16 September 2002). Vital Accounts: Quantifying Health and Population in Eighteenth-Century England and France. Cambridge University Press. p. 135. ISBN 978-0-521-80374-8.
  4. ↑ Joanna Innes (8 October 2009). Inferior Politics: Social Problems and Social Policies in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Oxford University Press. p. 131. ISBN 978-0-19-820152-6.
  5. ↑ Robert Davies (1868). A Memoir of the York Press: With Notices of Authors, Printers, and Stationers, in the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries. Nichols and Sons. p. 142.
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