Jonathan Goddard

Jonathan Goddard (* January / February 1617 in Deptford, † March 24, 1675 in London) was an English physician, Member of Parliament and professor. He was a founding member of the Royal Society.

He was the son of a wealthy shipbuilder from Deptford ( where he went to school ) and studied from 1632 at the University of Oxford ( Magdalen Hall ) and in 1637 at the University of Cambridge ( Christ's College ) Medicine ( MB Financial Statements 1638). In 1643 he became a member of the Royal College of Physicians (MD at St. Catharine 's College in 1643, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians 1646) and assisted Charles I as a doctor, when he was imprisoned by the Parliament. 1649/50 he was a doctor in the parliamentary army. 1651, he was Warden of Merton College, Oxford, where he was a member of the Oxford Philosophical Club by John Wilkins, a forerunner of the Royal Society. 1653 was a representative of Oxford in the Rump Parliament. In 1655 he became professor of medicine at Gresham College in London. He was one of five doctors who Oliver Cromwell at its deathbed supervised ( with George Bate, Thomas Trapham, John Bathurst, Laurence Wright). In accession to the throne of Charles II in 1660, he lost his post as Warden of Merton College, Oxford, but retained his professorship at Gresham College until his death in 1660 and was a founding member of the Royal Society and in whose advice. When the Royal Society early in 1661 lost their rooms, they met in Goddard 's rooms at Gresham College.

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