Hugh Chamberlen the younger
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Hugh Chamberlen the younger (1664–1728) was a fashionable English physician in London.
The eldest son of Hugh Chamberlen the elder, he was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, and took the degree of Master of Arts (MA) in 1683 per literas regias. After studying medicine at the University of Leyden he graduated M.D. at Cambridge in 1689. In 1694 he was admitted a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, and was censor in 1707, 1719, 1721.[1]
Chamberlen practised midwifery like his forebears, and had many fashionable patients. He dined with Jonathan Swift, and attended Francis Atterbury in the Tower of London. His own house was in King Street, Covent Garden, but he spent much time in the society of the Duchess of Buckingham and Normanby at Buckingham House.[1]
Chamberlen died at Buckingham House after a long illness on 17 June 1728.[1]
Works
Chamberlen's only published work was a Latin epithalamium, written on the marriage of Princess Anne in 1683.[1]
