together with Lord Lumley was the generous donor in 1582 of arent charge upon certain lands, to endow a Surgery lecture in the College—the Lumleian Lectureship, the fourth holder of which was Harvey himself, who in his very first course (1615) set forth his views on the circulation of the blood.
Also Dr. Theodore Gulston, celebrated for his theological no less than for his medical learning, who bequeathed by will in 1632 £200 to the College "to purchase a rent charge for the maintenance of an annual Lecture to be read within the College sometime between Michaelmas and Easter by one of the four youngest Doctors in physic in the College."
Also Sir Theodore Mayerne (1573–1654), who left us his Library, including many manuscripts.
Also Sir W. Paddy, first time President in 1609 and again in 1618, who bequeathed £30 to the College in 1634.
Also Dr. Baldwin Hamey, Senior, who also left to the College a like sum after his death in 1640.
Also Dr. Baldwin Hamey, Junior, "the most munificent of all the benefactors of our College," as Dr. Munk describes him. In the troublous times of the Civil Wars, when the building rented by the College in Amen Corner from the Chapter of St. Paul's was like to be sold to pay the exactions levied in the City of London, Dr. Hamey himself became the purchaser of the house and garden and afterwards gave it in perpetuity to his colleagues," and who besides contributing liberally to the Fund for rebuilding the College after the Fire of 1666 also "at his own sole cost amounting to some hundreds of pounds, wainscoted the caenaculum with fine Spanish oak with fluted pilasters ornamented with capitals, an elegantly carved cornice, and his coat of arms and crest immediately over the entrance." A portion of this wainscoting was removed
