John Somerset
John Somerset or Somerseth (died 1454) was an English physician and administrator.
He was born in London and attended Oxford University, but moved to Cambridge University to avoid the plague, graduating master in 1418.
Thomas Beaufort, Duke of Exeter, appointed him master of the grammar school at Bury St Edmunds and just five years later he was named as a governor of a proposed joint college of medicine and surgery in London. Somerset worked on the college with
After 1450 he was out of favour, with Parliament demanding his removal from court as an undesirable influence.
He died intestate on 4 June 1454, leaving no children.
References
- Rawcliffe, Carole (2008). "Somerset, John". doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/26012. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
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