The Hunterian oration : delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons of England on Saturday, February 14th, 1925 / by Sir d'Arcy Power.

  • Power, D'Arcy, Sir, 1855-1941.
Date:
1925
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Credit: The Hunterian oration : delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons of England on Saturday, February 14th, 1925 / by Sir d'Arcy Power. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Merton. It makes a pleasant story and shows that the relation of the Bodleys, the Montagus, and the Harveys centred round this little bit of ground in the heart of London for two or three generations. Sir Thomas Bodley lived in later life for some time at Fulham, squeezed out, perhaps, by the Winwoods and their increasing family, but sick and sorry he returned to his old house where he could be well nursed by the hospital sisters and be well treated by ‘ little Doctor Harvey ’ the physician. Mr. G. W. Wheeler points out that Bodley in his letters to James, the Librarian, refers several times to his gallery, as, for instance, on 14 November 1604 when he writes that he has ‘ about 2,000 already [books] gathered in my Gallerie \ These books, too, were numbered and kept in order, for he complains that James had not put them back in their proper places. Dr. Freier, Bodley’s and Winwood’s next- door neighbour, was Thomas Fryer, incorporated Doctor of Physic at Oxford in 162 3. He was a consistent member of the Church of Rome and ‘compounded with his Majesty for a certain yearly sum not to come to church’. His two sons are said to have lived in the house. They were John, who died at the age of 96 in 1672, and Thomas, who died in 1623. Both were Doctors of Medicine and Fellows of the College of Physicians. D’Arcy Power.