Charles Scarborough
Sir Charles Scarborough or Scarburgh
Upbringing
Scarborough was born in St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, Westminster, in 1615, to Edmund Scarburgh and his wife Hannah (
Merton College, Oxford (MD, 1646).[2] While at Oxford he was a student of William Harvey, and the two would become close friends. Scarborough was also tutor to Christopher Wren
, who was his assistant for a time.
Royal physician
Following the
Mary. During the reign of James II, Scarborough served (from 1685 to 1687) as Member of Parliament for Camelford in Cornwall.[1]
Merits
Scarborough was an original fellow of the Royal Society. As a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, the author of a treatise on anatomy, Syllabus Musculorum, which was used for many years as a textbook,[3] and a translator and commentator on the first six books of Euclid's Elements, published in 1705. He also appeared as the subject of a poem by Abraham Cowley.[4]
Scarborough died in London on 26 February 1694 and was buried at Cranford, Middlesex. St Dunstan's Church there has a monument to him in Latin and English (as "Scarburgh"), erected by his widow.[5][1]
References
- ^ a b c Robert L. Martensen, "Scarburgh, Sir Charles (1615–1694)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, UK: OUP, 2004 Retrieved 29 December 2015.
- ^ "Scarborough, Charles (SCRH632C)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ Availability online. Retrieved 18 July 2020.
- ^ An Ode to Dr Scarborough.
- ^ Church site. Retrieved 18 July 2020.
- . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
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