Kentish, Richard ♂

Education

M.D. 13.8.1787 on testimonials signed by J. Sampson M.D.(Oxon.), Beverley, Robert Knox M.D., London, previously in Army, Richard Kentish M.D.(Edin.), London and Andrew Duncan, Edinburgh.

Birth/childhood

Born c. 1731 son of William Kentish.

Career

Apprenticed 1745 to Lancelot Fairfax, apothecary in Malton for 5 years then with Mr Garencieres, apothecary in York 1½ years. Then in London for 1½ years.

Studied Edinburgh University - medical student 1781-1784.

Came to Bridlington in 1753 and practised there as a surgeon, apothecary and man-midwife. [Doctor]

Publication - paper in Edinburgh Magazine 6, 335 - 337.

Death

Died at Bridlington 5.4.1792 aged 61.

Sources

• P.J. Wallis and R.V. Wallis, Eighteenth Century Medics (Newcastle, 1988)
• Gentleman's Magazine 1792 I 388
• J. Britten, Richard Kentish in Journal of Botany, London 53, 179
• D. E. Allen, James Edward Smith and the Natural History Society in Journal of the Society for Bibliography of natural history 8 1978 481 - 493 (p485)