Hamilton, David

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Dates 1688-1721
Location London
Vocation Physician; man-midwife
Place of Birth Lanarkshire
Marriage Mary Starkie; Elizabeth Lane
Issue 2 sons
Place of birth Source Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Educated at Leiden and Rheims. Admitted Licentiate (1688) and Fellow (1703) of the Royal College of Physicians of London (1688). Second physician to Queen Anne (1712) and physician to Caroline, princess of Wales (1714). Elected Fellow of the Royal Society (1708). Published two religious texts and a medical work.