Background
He was son of George Lamphire, apothecary, and was born in Winchester.
He was son of George Lamphire, apothecary, and was born in Winchester.
New College.
1614–1688) was an English academic, who became a physician after being ejected from his college fellowship. He was later Camden Professor of Ancient History, and principal of Hart Hall, Oxford. He was admitted scholar of Winchester College in 1627.
He matriculated from New College, Oxford in 1634, aged 20.
Was elected fellow there in 1636. Proceeded Bachelor of Arts in 1638, and Master of Arts in 1641-1642.
He is apparently the John Lanfire who was appointed prebendary of Bath and Wells in 1641. In 1648 he was ejected from his fellowship by the parliamentary visitors, but during the Commonwealth practised physic with some success at Oxford.
Anthony à Wood in his "Autobiography" says he belonged to a set of royalists "who esteemed themselves virtuosi or wits".
He was Wood"s physician, and tried to cure his deafness. Lamphire was restored to his fellowship in 1660, and on 16 August was elected Camden professor of history. On 30 October 1660 he was created Doctor of Medicine On 8 September
1662 he succeeded Christopher Rogers (deprived) as principal of New Inn Hall, and on 30 May 1668 was translated to the headship of Hart Hall.
He was also a justice of the peace for the city and county of Oxford, and seems to have taken some part in civic affairs, particularly in the paving of Saint Clement"s and the draining of the town moat. He died on 30 March 1688.
Walker calls him "a good, generous, and fatherly man, of a public spirit, and free from the modish hypocrisy of the age he lived in".