Education
He proceeded, however, to Christ Church, Oxford, where he was nominated student 23 July 1705, and graduated Bachelor of Arts 20 May 1709, Master of Arts
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Noel Broxholme
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1689?-1748), was an English physician. Broxholme was, according to Doctor Stukeley, a native of Stamford, Lincolnshire, of humble origin. Born in or about 1689, he was admitted on the foundation at Westminster School in 1700, and in 1704 was elected to Trinity College, Cambridge.
18 April 1711.
In the former year, 1709, he had commenced his medical studies, under Richard Mead, at Saint Thomas"s Hospital, and in 1715 was elected to one of the first of the Radcliffe travelling fellowships. 8 July 1723.
Broxholme then began practice in London, was admitted a candidate of the College of Physicians 23 December 1723, a fellow 22 March 1724-1725, was censor in 1726, and delivered the Harveian oration in 1731. This, which was printed the same year in quarto, is remarkable for its elegant yet unaffected Lafinity.
He was one of the six physicians appointed to Saint George"s Hospital at the first general board held 19 October
1733, and in the following year was made first physician to the Prince of Wales, "with salary annexed," an office which he resigned in 1739. At Lord Hervey"s suggestion he was the first physician summoned to assist Doctor Tessier in Queen Caroline"s last illness.
He died at his country residence, Hampton, Middlesex, by his own hand, 8 July 1748, and was buried on the 13th at Hampton. By his will he bequeathed the sum of £500 for the benefit of the king"s scholars at Westminster "in such manner as the two upper masters of the said school shall think fit," and a like sum to Christ Church "to be applied towards finishing the library."
Reverting to our former authority, Doctor Stukeley, his countryman and fellow-student at Saint Thomas"s Hospital, we learn that Broxholme "was a man ot wit and gayety, lov"d poetry, was a good classic, … got much money in the Misisipi project in France.
I remember him with as much wit as ever I knew."
In 1754 there appeared "A Collection of Receipts in Physic, being the Practice of the late eminent Doctor Bloxam: containing a Complete Body of Prescriptions answering to every Disease, with some in Surgery.
The Second Edition." Octavo, London.
Membership
Upon his return he removed to University College Oxford, as a member of which he took his degrees in physic by accumulation, proceeding Doctor of Medicine
Personality
At length he came over and practised, but never had a great liking to it, tho" he had good encouragemt." He was always nervous and vapoured," writes Horace Walpole, "and so good-natured that he left off his practice from not being able to bear seeing so many melancholy objects.
