Knighton, William ♂

Education

M.A. and M.D. 24.5.1800 on testimonials signed by Stephen Luke M.D., Falmouth and Charles Ainsworth M.D. in the county of Devon.

Birth/childhood

Born 1776 at Beer Ferris, Devon son of William Knighton and grandson of William Knighton of Grenoven, Whitchurch.

Career

Studied at Edinburgh University - medical student 1804-1806. Also M.D. 1806 King’s College, Aberdeen.

L.R.C.P.L. 1806.

Assistant surgeon, Royal Naval hospital, Plymouth.

Practised in Hanover Square, London. Physician to Prince Regent. Made a baronet in 1813. Private Secretary and Privy Purse to George IV. Portrait by Sir David Wilkie. [Doctor]

Death

Died 11.10.1836 aged 59.

Sources

• Memoirs, 2 vols. 1838
• Munk's Roll iii 39
• W. I. C. Morris, Sir William Knighton on the invisible accoucheur, Lloyd Roberts Memorial lecture. Manchester Medical School Gazette c.1976
• A. Aspinall, George IV and Sir William Knighton, EHR 55 1940 57 - 82)
• William Knighton in Wikipedia.