SAMUEL BARROW, M.D. PHYSICIAN TO CHARLES II AND ADMIRER OF JOHN MILTON

作者：A.L. Wyman · 发表于：Medical History · 年份：1974 · DOI：10.1017/s0025727300019773 · 被引用次数：5 · 研究领域：Historical and modern epidemiology studies、Empathy and Medical Education

ON THE north bank of the Thames, close to Putney Bridge, the parish church of Fulham still preserves a faintly rural air, despite the encroachment of modern industrial building and traffic.In the Tower Chapel a monument in marble is dedicated to the memory of Lady Dorothy Clarke and her second husband Dr. Samuel Barrow.The monument, said to be the work of Grinling Gibbons, was erected by George Clarke after the death of his mother in 1695, and, as we would expect from that man of refined taste, it is simple, handsome and impressive.From the inscription we learn that the Lady Dorothy was first married to Sir William Clarke, secretary at war to Charles II, and that Samuel Barrow was the king's physician-in-ordinary and judge advocate to the English army.The arms of the families are rendered, Barrow's being two swords in saltier between four fleur-de-lis.A black marble stone in the south transept floor gives us more information.As translated by FRretl the epitaph reads: Sacred to the pious Memory of Samuel Barrow, M.D., descended from an ancient family in the county of Norfolk, Physician in Ordinary to Charles II and above twenty years Advocate- General and Judge Martial to the English army; which offices he undertook by the King's command, having followed Albemarle and by his counsels expedited the return of Charles.He married once, the widow of Sir William Clarke, Knt.Of this most happy pair, Death broke the union which it alone could, after they had, for sixteen years, exhibi...