The John Bargrave Collection
John Buggs (1603 - 1640)
Apothecary, tobacco seller, and botanist. In 1632, at the insistence of the Royal College of Physicians, he was imprisoned as an "empiric" (apothecary) practicing physic without a license. After his fee was paid by the Society of Apothecaries, Buggs went to Leiden to earn his M.D. and was incorporated by Oxford in 1635. Nonetheless, the College of Physicians blocked his appointment as physician at Christ Church Hospital. He was also an actor, named in a petition of the College to the Lord Chamberlain as "one of the Queen of Bohemia's players, sometime an apothecary" (Raven, 274, n. 4; Leith-Ross, 171-2).Buggs participated in botany expeditions with Thomas Johnson and William Broad and was named a benefactor in Musaeum Tradescantianum. Other biography: https://www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/london-physicians/1550-1640/buggs-john Roles: Botanist
Relevant locations: Educated at Leiden
Educated at Oxford University
Place of display (non-collection) at London
People linked to person: John Buggs was a friend of William Broad (-)
John Buggs was a friend of Thomas Johnson (c. 1600-1644)
John Buggs was a source of object(s) for Tradescanti (-)