Fowke was the son of Walter Fowke, Doctor of Medicine He was born at Bishop Burton, Yorkshire, and there baptised on 7 January 1639. His mother was sister of Sir John Micklethwaite, physician to Charles II and to Saint Bartholomew"s Hospital.
He was admitted at Queens" College, Cambridge, 21 April 1654, graduated Bachelor of Arts 1658, and on 26 March in the same year was admitted a fellow of the college. His family connections directed him to the profession of medicine, and he graduated Doctor of Medicine
1638–1710), was an English physician. at Cambridge 1668. He practised in London, residing in Little Britain, and was admitted a fellow of the College of Physicians 12 November 1680. She died 6 December 1686.
He retired to his paternal estate in Shropshire, and there died at Little Worley Hall 21 January 1710.
He was buried in the neighbouring church of Brewood, and his death is recorded on his wife"s monument in Saint Chad"s Church, Shrewsbury. He was learned in theology as well as in medicine, and was an admirer of Doctor Seth Ward, bishop of Salisbury, whose views on passive obedience he warmly supported.
In some manuscript notes on a sermon of Ward"s, on the text ‘And they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation,’ Fowke expresses his contempt of the conduct of the university of Oxford in 1688, saying, ‘These great pretenders to loyalty invited ye Prince of Orange. They had no patience when King James bore upon their privileges in Oxford, but exclamed bitterly against ye king and joyned with the wiggs and dissenters to bring in ye Prince of Orange.’ Among the Sloane manuscripts in the British Museum there is a private letter of Fowkes.
