Thomas Moundeford
Thomas Moundeford M.D. (1550–1630) was an English academic and physician, President of the
Life
The fourth son of Osbert Moundeford and his wife Bridget, daughter of Sir John Spelman of Narborough, Norfolk, he was born at Feltwell.[1] He was educated at Eton College and admitted a scholar of King's College, Cambridge, on 16 August 1568. On 17 August 1571 he was admitted a fellow, and graduated B.A. 1572 and M.A. 1576.[2] On 18 July 1580 he moved to the study of medicine. From 1580 to 1583 he was bursar of King's College and left the college in August 1583. He continued to reside in Cambridge till he had graduated M.D.[3]
Moundeford then moved to London, and 9 April 1593 was a licentiate of the College of Physicians, and 29 January 1594 a fellow. He lived in Milk Street in the
Moundeford was seven times a censor of the College of Physicians, was treasurer in 1608, and president 1612, 1613, 1614, 1619, 1621, 1622, and 1623.
In later life, Moundeford became blind. He died in 1630 at the house of his son-in-law
Works
In 1599 Moundeford published a translation of a French work by
Moundeford published in 1622 a small book entitled Vir Bonus, a summary of what experience had taught him.
Family
Moundeford in 1583 married Mary Hill, daughter of Richard Hill, mercer, of Milk Street, London. His wife died in her ninety-fourth year, in 1656, in the house in which they had lived together in Milk Street. Mary was a devout Anglican; their parish priest was James Speght, a neighbour and father of Rachel Speght. Moundeford's Vir Bonus showed him to be an admirer of Theodore Beza,[1][3][13]
They had two sons: Osbert, admitted a scholar of King's College, Cambridge, on 25 August 1601, aged 16; and Richard, admitted a scholar of the same college on 25 August 1603. Both died before their father, and their epitaph, in English verse, is given in John Stow's London. It was in the church of St. Mary Magdalen. He had also two daughters, Bridget, who in 1606 married Sir John Bramston, and Katharine, who married Christopher Rander of Burton, Lincolnshire.[3] His 11th great grandson is now a doctor
Notes
- ^ doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/19435. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- ^ a b "Moundeford, Thomas (MNDT568T)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ a b c d e f g Lee, Sidney, ed. (1894). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 39. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/55525. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- ISBN 978-0-7546-6987-6.
- ISBN 978-0-14-193240-8.
- ISBN 978-1-4669-4965-2.
- ISBN 978-0-19-535883-4.
- ^ 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. 354.
- ^ Paul Jordan-Smith (1931). Bibliographia Burtoniana: A Study of Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy, with a Bibliography of Burton's Writings. Stanford University Press. p. 47. GGKEY:GPN9HWAJZ7U.
- ISBN 978-1-4535-8033-2.
- Sir Laurence Tanfield), part of his legal acquaintance through Bramston.
- ISBN 978-0-19-535883-4.
References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lee, Sidney, ed. (1894). "Moundeford, Thomas". Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 39. London: Smith, Elder & Co.