Education
He graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1672, was elected a Fellow of his college in 1674 and Dean in 1677, graduated Master of Arts
He graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1672, was elected a Fellow of his college in 1674 and Dean in 1677, graduated Master of Arts
Robert Pitt Doctor of Medicine (1653–1713) was an English physician. He matriculated at Wadham College, Oxford, on 2 April 1669, and was elected to a scholarship there in 1670. in 1675, Bachelor of Medicine in 1678, and Doctor of Medicine on 16 February 1682. He taught anatomy at Oxford, and was elected Fellow of the Royal Society on 20 December 1682.
He was created a fellow by the new charter of James II, and admitted on 12 April 1687.
He was a censor in 1687 and 1702. Pitt lived in 1685 in the parish of Saint Peter-le-Poer, in the city of London.
In 1703, and till his death, in Hatton Garden. On the death of Francis Bernard he was, on 23 February 1698, elected physician to Saint Bartholomew"s Hospital, and held the post until 1707.
Pitt died on 13 January 1713.
Pitt married Martha, daughter of John Nourse of Wood Eaton, Oxfordshire, in 1686.
Royal Society]
In 1684 Pitt settled in London, and was admitted a candidate or member of the Royal College of Physicians on 22 December.