Robert Welsted (1671–1735) was an English physician and classical scholar.
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Robert Welsted (1671–1735) was an English physician and classical scholar.
He was the son of Leonard Welsted of Bristol. He matriculated from St Edmund Hall, Oxford, on 4 December 1687, and was elected in 1689 to a demyship at Magdalen College, which he held till 1698, graduating B.A. on 25 June 1691, and M.A. on 12 May 1694. He was admitted an extra-licentiate of the London College of Physicians on 11 December 1695. He was then practising medicine at Bristol, where he remained for some years; when he later moved to London, he was admitted a licentiate on 3 September 1710. [3]
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St Edmund Hall is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. The college has a claim to be "the oldest academical society for the education of undergraduates in any university" and is the last surviving medieval hall at the University.
A demyship is a form of scholarship at Magdalen College, Oxford. It is derived from demi-socii or half-fellows.
Welsted was admitted a Fellow of the Royal Society on 20 March 1718. In his later years his London practice dropped away, and he relied on charity from his friend Hugh Boulter. [4] He died at Tavistock Street, London, on 1 February 1735. [3]
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