Sir Charles Scarborough or Scarburgh Member of Parliament Federal Reserve System Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians was an English physician and mathematician.
Background
Scarborough was born in Saint Martin"s-in-the-Fields, Westminster, in 1615, to Edmund Scarburgh and his wife Hannah (Colonel Edmund Scarburgh, prominent Virginia colonist, was his brother), and was educated at Street Paul"s School, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (Bachelor, 1637, Master of Arts, 1640) and Merton College, Oxford (Doctor of Medicine, 1646).
Career
Scarborough was also tutor to Christopher Wren, who was for a time his assistant. Following the Restoration in 1660, Scarborough was appointed physician to Charles II, who knighted him in 1669. Scarborough attended the king on his deathbed, and was later physician to James II and William and Mary.
Scarborough was an original fellow of the Royal Society and a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, author of a treatise on anatomy, Syllabus Musculorum, which was used for many years as a textbook, and a translator and commentator of the first six books of Euclid"s Elements (published in 1705).
He also was the subject of a poem by Abraham Cowley, An Ode to Doctor Scarborough. Scarborough died in London in 1694.
He was buried at Cranford, Middlesex, where there is a monument to him in the parish church erected by his widow.
Membership
Royal Society]
During the reign of James II, Scarborough served (from 1685 to 1687) as Member of Parliament for Camelford in Cornwall.