Robert Welsted

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Robert Welsted (* 1670 or 1671 in Bristol , † February 1, 1735 in London ) was an English doctor and teacher .

Welsted was the son of the schoolmaster Leonard Welsted of Bristol. He matriculated at St Edmund Hall in Oxford on December 4, 1687. After winning a scholarship , he studied from 1689 to 1698 at Magdalen College , Oxford, which the Irish-born writer Oscar Wilde also attended. On December 11, 1695 he was awarded the degree of licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians . He worked in Bristol as a doctor before moving to London, where he received a Licentia docendi ("Permission to teach") on September 3, 1710 .

In 1718 he was appointed a member of the Royal Society . Since his activities were difficult to carry out in the end, he was financially dependent on his friend Hugh Boulter in the last years of his life until his death in 1735 .

Works (selection)

  • De Ætate vergente Liber , London 1724
  • De adulta Ætate Liber , London 1725
  • De Medicina Mentis Liber , London 1726
  • Tentamen de variis Hominum Naturis , London 1730
  • Tentamen alterum de propriis Naturarum Habitibus , London 1732

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Welsted, Robert in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography . Retrieved August 21, 2014. (Subscription required for full access.)
personal data
SURNAME Welsted, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English doctor and teacher
DATE OF BIRTH 1670 or 1671
PLACE OF BIRTH Bristol
DATE OF DEATH February 1, 1735
Place of death London