Background
Wagstaffe was born in Cublington, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom, The only son of the town"s rector, and related to the Wagstaffe family of Knightcote, Warwickshire.
Wagstaffe was born in Cublington, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom, The only son of the town"s rector, and related to the Wagstaffe family of Knightcote, Warwickshire.
He was educated at a school in Northampton, entered Lincoln College, Oxford in 1701, graduated Bachelor of Arts (16 June 1704) and Master of Arts
5 May 1707). The same year, he joined the London "practice of physics" of his relative Thomas Wagstaffe. On 8 July 1714, Wagstaffe graduated Bachelor of Medicine and Doctor of Medicine at Oxford. He became fellow of the Royal College of Physicians on 22 December 1718, and was a censor in 1720.
He became reader on anatomy to the Barber-Surgeons on 15 December 1715, and succeeded Salisbury Cade as physician to Saint Bartholomew"s Hospital on 29 December 1720.
He became a fellow of the Royal Society on 13 March 1718. Wagstaffe died in Bath.
Royal Society.