The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700

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Thomas Trapham ( - c. 29 Dec 1683)

Alias Thomas [alias] Trappam

An Abingdon surgeon who prepared one of the skeletons on public display at the Anatomy School. As a surgeon to Oliver Cromwell, he prepared King Charles I's body for burial after his beheading: he "sewed on the old king's head when he was beheaded and said 'he sewed on the goose's head'." He was buried in St. Elen's churchyard at Abendon under one of the windowes" (Wood [1894], Vol. 3, p. 84). Ashcroft gives 1688 as the year of his death (475). Relevant locations: No Role Oxford Anatomy School, Schools Quadrangle
Residence at Abingdon-on-Thames, Oxfordshire
Residence at Abingdon-on-Thames, Berkshire
 Relationships: Thomas Trapham (-1692) was a son of Thomas Trapham
Linked manuscripts: as Mentions or references - Bodley 869, Bodleian Library,
Linked manuscript items: as Subject of/in a document - "[Reference to a skeleton in the Anatomy School collection.]," Bodleian Library Bodley 869, Oxford University
 Linked print sources: as Mentioned or referenced by - On Royalty: A Very Polite Inquiry Into Some Strangely Related Families.
as Mentions or references - Life and Times of Anthony Wood.
as Mentions or references - Tercentenary of the First English Book on Tropical Medicine, by Thomas Trapham of Jamaica.
 Linked Objects: Manipulator of an object - skeleton
 References in Documents: