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John Thorpe (antiquarian, 1682–1750)
John Thorpe (1682–1750) was an English physician, antiquarian and Fellow of the Royal Society.
==Life==
The eldest son of John Thorpe and his wife Ann, sister and coheiress of Oliver Combridge of Newhouse, Kent, he was born at his father's house of Newhouse in the parish of Penshurst, Kent, on 12 March 1682; his father had an estate in the parishes of Penshurst, Lamberhurst, Tonbridge, and Chiddingstone. He was sent to Westerham grammar school, where the master was Thomas Manningham, and on 14 April 1698 matriculated at University College, Oxford, graduating B.A. at Michaelmas 1701, M.A. on 27 June 1704, M.B. on 16 May 1707, and M.D. in July 1710.
Thorpe was elected a fellow of the Royal Society on 30 November 1705, and at that time lived in Ormond Street, London, near his friend Richard Mead, the physician. In 1715 he settled as a physician in Rochester, Kent where he lived within the precincts of the cathedral, and attained built up a practice. He died on 30 November 1750 at Rochester, and was buried in the church of Stockbury. He had supported Thomas Hearne, Browne Willis and other scholars, and gave medical aid to many of the poor in his district.〔
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