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Richard Burthogge was the son of a Captain of Foot at the garrison of Plymouth, and was baptised in Plympton Street Maurice on 30 January 1637 (Operating system. 1638 by the Gregorian calendar).
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Richard Burthogge was the son of a Captain of Foot at the garrison of Plymouth, and was baptised in Plympton Street Maurice on 30 January 1637 (Operating system. 1638 by the Gregorian calendar).
He attended Exeter Grammar School, was admitted to All Souls College, Oxford, as a servitor in 1654, migrated to Lincoln College, Oxford, and graduated Bachelor of Arts “completed by determination” in 1658.
He matriculated at the University of Leiden in October 1661. His doctoral thesis was entitled “De lithiasi et calculo” and submitted on 27 February 1662. Back in England, Burthogge practiced medicine in and near Totnes.
Unprejudiced even against Catholics and probably himself a Non-Conformist, he was made a Justice of the Peace under King James II, a position he retained under King William III. Burthogge married at least three times.
In the following years, when married to Mary Deeble, Burthogge published several other works on religious subjects and two further philosophical works, both dedicated to John Locke: An Essay upon Reason, and the Nature of Spirits (1694) and Mary Deeble probably died in 1695.
Ann Burthogge, who predeceased her father, left a young son, Richard Babbage, ancestor of the computer pioneer Charles Babbage. At the time of his death Burthogge was married to Honour and seems to have lived at Bowden.
He died in 1705 and was buried at Saint Mary's church, Totnes, on 24 July 1705.
In his philosophical and theological writings he was a critic in some respects of John Locke, but generally his supporter, and an advocate of religious toleration. His epistemology was empiricist, and he opposed innate ideas. His metaphysics was distinctive, but not completely worked out.
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