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Born May 23, 1718 • Scotland
Died March 30, 1783 (aged 64) • London • England

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Sir John Pringle, detail of an engraving by W.H. Mote after a portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds
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British statesman
Sir Hugh Allen, drawing by John Singer Sargent, 1925; in the British Museum
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British organist and musical educator
Michel Saint-Denis
French director
William Temple
William Temple
archbishop of Canterbury
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John Curwen
British educator
James Lind, engraving by I. Wright after a portrait by Sir George Chalmers, 1783
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British physician
Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist
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Alexander Monro, primus
Scottish physician and professor of anatomy
Dyce, William: Neptune Resigning the Empire of the Seas to Britannia
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Tobias Matthay
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