Frederick Noël Lawrence Poynter

Whispyhistory: Cromwell's medical attendant

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'''Frederick Noël Lawrence Poynter''' (24 December 1908-11 March 1979) was first a librarian and then the Director of the [[Wellcome Institute]] of the History of Medicine between 1964 and 1973. In 1965, he was one of the founding committee members who established the [[British Society for the History of Medicine]] (BSHM), along with [[William Copeman]], [[Haldane Philp Tait]], [[Kenneth David Keele|K. D. Keele]], [[D. Geraint James]], [[Douglas Guthrie]], [[Edwin Sisterton Clarke|E S Clarke]] and [[Charles Edward Newman|Charles Newman]]. He became President of the BSHM in 1972 and Secretary-General of the International Academy of the History of Medicine.<ref name="Keele1079">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref><ref name="Bedford">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref><ref name="BSHM"></ref>

With his friend [[William John Bishop]], they wrote about the medical attendant of [[Oliver Cromwell]] in ''A Seventeenth Century Doctor and his Patients: John Symcotts, 1592?-1662''.<ref name="Keele1079"/>

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[[Category:1908 births]]
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[[Category:British librarians]]
[[Category:English medical historians]]

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