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William Gibbons, Doctor (1649 - 1728)

Physician and Doctor of Medicine (Oxford) Dictionary of National Biography entry: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/10601 Other biography: https://history.rcplondon.ac.uk/inspiring-physicians/william-gibbons Relevant locations: Birth place in Wolverhampton, West Midlands
Educated at St John's College (Oxford), Oxford University
Lived at or near London, England
 Relationships: William Gibbons was a member of Royal College of Physicians (1518-)

Edward Coles (-fl. 1697) was a correspondent of William Gibbons
Linked print sources: as Correspondent - Extract of two Letters, the one to Dr. William Gibbons, Fellow of the College of Physitians London; the other to Mr. Nicholas Staphorst, Operator in Chymistry at Apothecaries-Hall, from Mr. Edward Coles, giving an account of a Red Colour produced by mixture of a Sulphureous Spirit with a Volatile Alcali.
 Linked Objects: Collector (minor) - bottle of sulphreous spirit
 References in Documents:
MS Book of Benefactors (MacGregor, ed.)

William Gibbons, Doctor of Medicine and Fellow of St. John’s College, a great expert in his field, generously offered the Museum a little horned fish from the Indian ocean, known as a Setang, in order to promote the study of Natural History and to add to the Museum's collection of fishes. (We hope for more).

Selections from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London (1665-1669) VII. Extract of two Letters, the one to Dr. William Gibbons, Fellow of the College of Physitians London; the other to Mr. Nicholas Staphorst, Operator in Chymistry at Apothecaries-Hall, from Mr. Edward Coles, giving an account of a Red Colour produced by mixture of a Sulphureous Spirit with a Volatile Alcali.