Abbott
Robert
Male
1750 / 1830
Surgeon
Needham Market
18th & 19th
Baptised at Barking 23 Sept. 1750. (19)
3 April 1780 Attended a Quaker birth at Needham Market: John Cock and wife Mary had a daughter, Lucy. (257)
1 Jan 1781 Attended a Quaker birth at Needham Market: Samuel Alexander and wife Elizabeth had a son, John Gurney. (257)
NB Witnesses were Robert Abbott and Janamaria Beck.
May 1781 Skeleton in chains unearthed near Needham Market. Now in the possession of Mr Abbot, surgeon. (4)
Apr. 1785 Dissected a murderer's body. (4)
Mar. 1787 Elected Trustee of Suffolk Benevolent Medical Society. (4)
Mar. 1789 Founder Member of Suffolk Society of Surgeons. (4)
Sept 1790 Advertised for an apprentice. (4)
Feb. 1794 Advertised for an apprentice. Extensive practice. Morbid and comparative anatomy taught. (4)
April 1802 Case report to Astley Cooper - John Jefferson was his apprentice at the time. (21)
Lancelot Davie was his pupil. (21)
16 Aug. 1805 Attended Quaker birth at Barking: John Squire, shopkeeper, and Rachel, his wife, a daughter, Elizabeth. (257)
11 May 1807 Attended Quaker birth at Barking: John Squire, shopkeeper, and Rachel, his wife, a daughter, Sarah Ann. (257)
1811 to 1817 William Frost was his pupil. (2)
1818 Took Frost into partnership which was dissolved in 1823. (4)
Jan 1821 Signed loyal address to His Majesty the King. (4)
1820 & 1825 President of Suffolk Benevolent Medical Society. (4)
4 Mar. 1830 Died at Needham Market, having been in practice more than 50 years in his native place. (4)
Apprentices
30 Sept 1795, George B Lynn, £105 for 4 years
8 Jan.1784, William Hearn Hunt, £120 for 7 years
16 Dec. 1790, John Jefferson, £84 for 4 years
15 April 1806, Charles Costerton, £157 for 5 years
11 Dec.1798, Lancelot Davie, £157 for 5 years (238)
25 Mar 1782 Married Susan Stewart of Long Melford. (4)
15 Feb 1807 Susan Abbott died in her 51st year after 9 years of a severe and painful affliction. (4)
May 1805 Eldest daughter married George Lynn who had been Abbott's apprentice. (4)
Oct 1813 Youngest son, Clement, died in the Honourable East India Company's service as an officer on board the
'Lowther Castle' on The China Station. (4)
References
(2) Society of Apothecaries, Records of the Court of Examiners 1815-58, Guildhall Library, London.
(4) Ipswich Journal or Weekly Mercury. Weekly local newspaper published from 1720-a few issues missing.
(19) Parish Register- Barking, Suffolk- Mss Suffolk Record Office (Ipswich).
(21) Astley Cooper, A Treatise on Dislocations and Fractures of the Joints, London, 1832. (1st ed 1822).
(238) Wallis, P J, Wallis, R V, and White, Eighteenth Century Medics. Published by Newcastle University, 1985.
(257) Quaker births: Suffolk Record Office (Ipswich): Microfilm reel J 424/1: PRO RG6 842 (book 1062), RG61053 (book 1063),
RG6 1054 (book 1064)