Noel Broxholme
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Broxholme was, according to William Stukeley, a native of Stamford, Lincolnshire, of humble origin,[2] the son of Robert Broxholme of Oakham, Rutland.[3] He was admitted on the foundation at Westminster School in 1700, and, in 1704, was elected to Trinity College, Cambridge.[4] He proceeded, however, to Christ Church, Oxford, where he was nominated student 23 July 1705, and graduated B.A. on 20 May 1709 and M.A. on 18 April 1711.
In 1709, he had commenced his medical studies, under Richard Mead, at St. Thomas's Hospital, and, in 1715, was elected to one of the first of the Radcliffe travelling fellowships.[5] Upon his return, he removed to University College, Oxford, as a member of which he took his degrees in physic by accumulation, proceeding M.D. 8 July 1723.[3]
Medical career
Broxholme then began practice in London. He was admitted a Candidate of the College of Physicians on 23 December 1723, a Fellow on 22 March 1724–5, and served as Censor for 1726. He delivered the Harveian Oration in 1731:[5] it was printed the same year in quarto, and is remarkable for its elegant yet unaffected Latinity.
He was one of the six physicians appointed to St. George's Hospital, Lanesborough House, at the first general board held 19 Oct. 1733,[6] and in the following year was made first physician to the Prince of Wales, 'with salary annexed,'[5] an office which he resigned in 1739. At Lord Hervey's suggestion he was the first physician summoned to assist Dr. George Lewis Teissier in Queen Caroline's last illness.[7]
