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The Autobiography of Archbishop Thomas Seeker
George II. As a young man he was reported to be, like many young
physicians, a deist (see entry for January 2, 1716 in Diary of Dudley Ryder,
ed. William Matthews, p. 161).
his Father: Bishop William Talbot.
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Samuel Rolleston (1702-1766) was prebendary of Salisbury in 1732 in
succession to a William Wake, who had been presented on the option of
Archbishop Wake in 1726, and also archdeacon of Sarum in 1732
[William H.R. Jones, Fasti Ecclesiae Sarisberiensis (Salisbury, 1879), pp.
166, 424]. A modest pluralist, he also held a stall at Winchester from
1744. L.RL. MS 1483, fol. 5, records on 18 April, 1758, a repayment to
a Mrs. Rolleston of money borrowed in 1756 and 1757, in all £48-6-0.
Robert Nesbitt (1697-1761), the son of an Independent minister, was
graduated M.D. at Leyden in 1721 where his thesis was De Partu Difficili.
He was thought well of by the eminent Dr. Boerhaave (Innes Smith,
English-Speaking Students, p. 169 and D.N.B.).
De Medicina Statica was the study of the measurement of insensible
perspiration, by different devices, particularly as tried by an Italian
physician Santorio (latinized as Sanctorius). Some, like Dr. George
Gheyne, hoped, by this means, to find the "Quantity and Quality of
those Foods that perspire the soonest." Seeker no doubt here was
correcting the statements often made that his Leyden thesis was de partu
dißcili A copy of Seeker's dissertation is in Lambeth Palace Library
(MS W 128.7).
Gorter: Jan de Gorter (1689-1762), a Dutch medical writer and
physician, whose book De perspiratione insensibili, was published in its
second edition in 1736.
Dr Rundle: Thomas Rundle (1688?-1743), later bishop of Derry,
1735-43, who had been introduced into Bishop Talbot's familia by
Edward Talbot. He had been a member of William Whiston's Society
for Promoting Primitive Christianity, and was held by many to be of
unsound doctrine (D.N.B.).
John Conybeare (1692-1755) was something of an educational reformer,
a sound Whig and orthodox high churchman. He was a fellow in
1710, and then rector of Exeter college (1730-33), dean of Christ Church
(1733-55) and bishop of Bristol from 1750 until his death. His sermon of