grandson of Sir Hugh Middleton, after whom he was named. In 1664 he signed himself Hugh Chamberlen, thus leaving out the a (a relic of his French origin) from the last syllable of his name. He seems never to have applied for admission to the College of Physicians, resenting perhaps their treatment of his father. Materials for a memoir are therefore wanting. He inherited a fine medical practice which descended to his own son and namesake in beautiful preservation. His wife was Dorothy, daughter of John Brett, Esq., of Kent.
4. Hugh Chamberlen, jun., M.D., the son above alluded to, was born in 1664, and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was created M.D. (comitiis regiis) 8th October 1689. He wrote “Queries concerning the Practice of Physick.” 18mo. London, 1694. In the same year he became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. He maintained the splendid practice to which he succeeded, and in 1723 had a notable patient in the Tower, the Jacobite Dr. Atterbury (late Bishop). Dr. Chamberlen translated Mauriceau’s Traité des maladies des femmes grosses. He was three times married, and had three daughters, but left no son. His memory, however, survives. He died on 17th June 1728. His monument was provided by Edmund, Duke of Buckingham, and his epitaph by Bishop Atterbury. Mr. George Lewis Smith says that this monument, which is in Westminster Abbey, is executed in marble of different colours by P. A. Scheemakers and Laur. Delvaux, and is “of striking effect;” the recumbent statue of the author, and the figures of Health, Longevity, and Fame are all gracefully and successfully designed and executed.
The following is the epitaph : —
HUGO CHAMBERLEN,
Hugonis ac Petri utriusque Medici filius ac nepos,
Medicinam ipse excoluit feliciter et egregié honestavit:
ad summam quippe artis suae peritiam
summam etiam in dictis et factis fidem, insignem mentis candorem,
morumque suavitatem, adjunxit,
ut an languentibus an sanis acceptior, an medicus an vir melior esset,
certatum sit inter eos qui in utroque laudis genere
Primarium fuisse uno ore consentiunt.
Nullam ille medendi rationem non assecutus,
depellendis tamen Puerperarum periculis, et avertendis lnfantium morbis,
operam praecipuè impendit,
eâque multoties cavit
ne illustribus familiis eriperentur haeeredes unici,
ne patriae charissimae cives egregii.
Universis certè prodesse (quantum potuit) voluit,
adeoque, distractâ in Partes republicâ,
Cum iis, a quorum sententiâ discessit, amicitiam nihilominus sanctè voluit,
artisque suae praesidia lubens communicavit.
Fuit ille
tantâ vitae elegantiâ et nitore, animo tarn forti tamque excelso,
indole tam propensa ad munificentiam,
specie ipsâ tam ingenuâ atque liberali,
ut facilè crederes prosapiae ejus nobilem aliquem exstitisse auctorem,
utcumque ex praeclarâ stirpe veterum Comitum de Tankerville
jam a quadringentis Ilium annis ortum nescires.
In diversâ quam expertus est fortunae sorte,
Quod suum erat — quod decuit — semper tenuit;
cum Magnis vivens
baud demissé se gessit,
cum Minimis non asperé, non inhumané,
utrosque eodem bene merendi studio complexus,
utrisque idem, aequé utilis ac charus.
Filius — erat mirâ in patrem pietate;
Pater — filiarum amantissimus quas quidem tres habuit,
unam e primâ conjuge, duas ex alterâ, castas, bonas, matribus simillimas;
cum iis omnibus usque ad mortem conjunctissimè vixit.
Tertiam Uxorem sibi superstitem reliquit.
Ad humaniores illas ac domesticas virtutes tanquam cumulus accessit
Rerum Divinarum amor non fictus,
summa Numinis Ipsius reverentia,
quibus imbuta mens, exuvias jam corporis depositura,
ad Superiora se erexit,
