Sir Clifton Wintringham, 1st Baronet

Sir Clifton Wintringham, 1st Baronet (1710–1794) was an English military physician.[1]

Life

He was the eldest son of Clifton Wintringham senior, and was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. He had a distinguished medical career, being elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1742, and becoming joint military physician to the forces, with John Pringle, in 1756. He was also physician in ordinary to George III, from 1762 when he was knighted. He was created baronet in 1774.[1][2]

Joseph Robertson, a friend, edited Wintringham's De morbis quibusdam commentarii (1782), and dedicated to him An Essay on Punctuation.[3][4] A memorial to Wintringham, by Thomas Banks, was erected in Westminster Abbey, marking the high standing with which he had been seen during life.[5]

Notes

  1. 1 2 Hudson, Giles. "Wintringham, Sir Clifton". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/29782. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. ↑ British Medical Journal: BMJ. Assoc. 1866. p. 134.
  3. ↑ Macdonald, D. L. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/23806. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  4. ↑ Robertson, Joseph (anon.) (1785). "An Essay on Punctuation". Internet Archive. London: J. Walter. pp. front matter. Retrieved 11 January 2017.
  5. ↑ Dictionary of British Sculptors, 1660-1851, Rupert Gunnis
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