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settled in London about the same time with him. Lister became Physician to the Queen of James I.; but he was besides the trusted friend, steward, and councillor of Mary, Countess of Pembroke, whose name will live as long as Sidney’s ‘Arcadia’ or Jonson’s epitaph are remembered. Fox, bred at Eton and at Cambridge, then served with the English army in the Netherlands,[1] under Sir John Norris, then studied medicine at Padua, where he graduated, and whence he returned to London in 1603. Though ten years Harvey’s senior in years, he was his junior in standing in the College, and succeeded to his post as Anatomy Reader, on Harvey’s resignation. He rose to well-deserved honour, became Elect, then President, and died with a reputation fully equal to the euphuistic Latin epitaph of his friend and cotemporary, Dr. Harney.[2] Harvey himself married a daugh-
- ↑ Dr. Munk, the learned and kindly Harveian Librarian, states that Fox took his degree at Padua before joining the army in the Netherlands. I believe that any one who consults the history of the time will see that the statement in the text is the more correct.
- ↑ Dr. Munk quotes it is his Roll of the College, vol. i. p. 139:—‘Patuit totum Foxium ad honesti normam factum esse, gravum sine morositate, religiosum sine super-
