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 grandson of Sir Hugh Middleton, after whom he was named. In 1664 he signed himself Hugh Chamberlen, thus leaving out the a (a relic of his French origin) from the last syllable of his name. He seems never to have applied for admission to the College of Physicians, resenting perhaps their treatment of his father. Materials for a memoir are therefore wanting. He inherited a fine medical practice which descended to his own son and namesake in beautiful preservation. His wife was Dorothy, daughter of John Brett, Esq., of Kent.

4. Hugh Chamberlen, jun., M.D., the son above alluded to, was born in 1664, and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was created M.D. (comitiis regiis) 8th October 1689. He wrote “Queries concerning the Practice of Physick.” 18mo. London, 1694. In the same year he became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. He maintained the splendid practice to which he succeeded, and in 1723 had a notable patient in the Tower, the Jacobite Dr. Atterbury (late Bishop). Dr. Chamberlen translated Mauriceau’s Traité des maladies des femmes grosses. He was three times married, and had three daughters, but left no son. His memory, however, survives. He died on 17th June 1728. His monument was provided by Edmund, Duke of Buckingham, and his epitaph by Bishop Atterbury. Mr. George Lewis Smith says that this monument, which is in Westminster Abbey, is executed in marble of different colours by P. A. Scheemakers and Laur. Delvaux, and is “of striking effect;” the recumbent statue of the author, and the figures of Health, Longevity, and Fame are all gracefully and successfully designed and executed.

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