Background
Richard Brocklesby was born on the 11th of August, 1722 in Minehead, Somerset, United Kingdom.
Richard Brocklesby was born on the 11th of August, 1722 in Minehead, Somerset, United Kingdom.
Richard Brocklesb was educated at Ballitore, in Ireland, where Edmund Burke was one of his school fellows, studied medicine at Edinburgh, and finally graduated at Leiden in 1745.
Richard Brocklesby succeeded John Pringle as Surgeon General of the British Army in 1758, and served in Germany during part of the Seven Years' War, and on his return settled down to practice in London. He was admitted a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and in 1758 delivered their Goulstonian Lectures, in 1763 their Croonian Lecture and in 1760 the Harveian Oratory. and in 1764 he published Œconomical and Medical Observations, which contained suggestions for improving the hygiene of army hospitals. In his latter years he withdrew altogether into private life.
Richard Brocklesby was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1757. He was on the premises of the House of Lords when he attended the Earl of Chatham following the latter's ultimately fatal collapse while speaking at a debate in the House on the American War of Independence in April 1778. The circle of his friends included some of the most distinguished literary men of the age.
Richard Brocklesby was a Fellow of the Royal Society.
