Arbuthnot, John
From AngloScottish
| Dates | c.1691-1735 | ||
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| Location | London; Oxford | ||
| Vocation | Physician; satirist | ||
| Place of Birth | Arbuthnott, Kincardineshire | ||
| Marriage | Margaret Wemyss | ||
| Issue | George; Charles; Anne; Margaret | ||
| Place of birth | Source | Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |
Graduated from Aberdeen (1685). Went to London (1691), where he tutored Jeffrey Jeffreys. Studied medicine at Oxford (1690s), and gained doctorate from St Andrews (1696). Attended to both Prince George of Denmark (1703) and Queen Anne (1705). Elected Fellow of the Royal Society (1704). Physician-in-ordinary to the queen (1709). Appointed Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London (1710). Physician to Chelsea Hospital (1713). Published a wide range of satires, political pamphlets and medical works, and was part, with Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift and others, of the literary circle known as the 'Scriblerus Club'.
