Protestant Exiles from France/Volume 2 - Book Third - Chapter 25 - Medical Men
Medical Men. — Benjamin Bosanquet, M.D., F.R.S., was the fifth son of Monsieur Bosanquet, the refugee (See Chapter xx.); he was born in London, Queen Street, St. Antholins, in 1708, and was baptized by Rev. Charles Bertheau. He was one of the Council of the Royal Society. He resided at Hatton Gardens, and died in 1755, unmarried.
Philip Du Val, M.D. (probably a son of Rev. Mr. Du Val, pasteur of La Patente, Soho), having studied under Boerhaave, became First Physician to the Princess of Wales, mother of George III. About 1730 he married Marianne (born 1707), daughter of Rev. Israel Antoine Aufrère. His son was Rev. Philip Du Val, D.D., F.R.S., Canon of Windsor and Vicar of Twickenham, who died in London on 14th March 1808, aged seventy-six.
[The reverend Canon’s promotion may have been the result of his letter to the Earl of Bute:—
“My Lord, — Your Lordship was so good as to promise me your powerful protection when the proper opportunity should offer for me to ask some mark of favour on account of my seven years’ Attachment to the Princess. I take the liberty to remind your Lordship of this your gracious promise, and intreat you to obtain of His Majesty for me the Prebend of Westminster now vacant by the death of Lord Irwin, or any other preferment which it shall please His Majesty to bestow on my small services. I flatter myself that this importunity will not appear improper from one who depends upon your Lordship’s protection alone, and who will ever be with the most respectful zeal, My Lord, your Lordship’s most devoted, most obedient, and most humble servant,
“April ye 18th 1763.”
John Obadiah Justamon, F.R.S., surgeon, died 27th March 1786. Justamont or Justamon, was a French Protestant surname, occurring in 1611, 1658, and 1674. At the Revocation, Jeremie Justamon of Marsillargues retired to Switzerland.
Charles Edward Bernard, M.D., of Edinburgh University, was a physician of the highest reputation in Clifton from 1812 to 1838. His ancestors were Huguenot refugees, who became proprietors in Jamaica. He died 18th November 1843. (See Gentleman’s Magazine.)
Charles Nicholas De la Cherois Purdon, M.D., is a son of Henry Purdon, M.D., by Anne, daughter of the late Samuel De la Cherois Crommelin of Carrowdore, and aunt of the present proprietor. He is the author of “The Huguenot Colony in Lisburn.” in the Ulster Journal of Archaeology, and of a pamphlet published at Belfast in 1869. “The Huguenots, a Brief History of the circumstances that obliged the Huguenots to leave France, and their settlement in Ireland.”