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100 The Autobiography of Archbishop Thomas Seeker
Middleton: possibly John Middleton, author of A Short Essay on the
Operation of Lithotomy, as it is performed by the new method above the Os Pubis
(London, 1727).
Pye: there are two possibilities: George Pye who was M.D. Leyden 1714
and son of George Pye, author of A Discourse of the Plague, 1721, or more
likely Samuel Pye (d. 1772), the author of Some Observations on the Several
Methods of Lithotomy, 1724, which reached a fourth edition in 1754
(Münk, Roll of the Royal College of Physicians in London, II, p. 117).
Mrs Kennon had been midwife at the birth of the future George III and
had an extensive practice in London. She very much disapproved of
male midwives [John Glaister, Dr William Smellie and His Contemporaries
(Glasgow, 1894), pp. 48-50].
FOLIO 24 (1736-37)
Mr Brakenridge: William Brakenridge (or Braikenridge), (1703?-
1762), a Scot from Glasgow who received his D.D. at Aberdeen. He was
incorporated from Queen's college, Oxford receiving his M.A. 1741,
B.D. and D.D. 1753. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in
1752 and contributed to papers on mathematics and population to the
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
Dr Sykes: Arthur Ashley Sykes (1684?-1756), a disciple of Hoadly who
was educated at St. Paul's School and Corpus Christi college, Cambridge.
Like Hoadly he admired Dr. Samuel Clarke, and was a prolific
controversialist (D.N.B.). To him is ascribed Reasons Alledged against Dr
Rundle :'s Promotion to the See of Gl Considered . . . , By a Gentleman of the
Temple (1734), an attack on Gibson, taking up the Church power theme.
Oxford was offerd to me: according to custom a Cambridge man like
Dr. Gooch could not hold the bishopric of Oxford, and presumably vice
versa.
Dr Gooch: Sir Thomas Gooch, second baronet (1674-1754), a chaplain
to Queen Anne, master of Gonville & Caius college, Cambridge 1716-54
and vice-chancellor 1717-20. He was successively bishop of Bristol
1737-38 "where he stayed so short a time as never to have visited his
diocese," of Norwich 1738-48, and of Ely 1748-54 (D.N.B.). He was
reputed to be careful for the formal deportment and outward dress of the
clergy [R.W. Ketton-Cremer, Country Neighbourhood (London, 1951), pp.
189-90].