Richard Caldwall

or Chaldwell, a Staffordsh. Man born, was educated in Brasenose College, of which he was afterwards Fellow, took the Degree of M. of Arts, entred upon the Physick line, and in the 32 year of his age became one of the Senior Students of Ch. Ch. a little after its last foundation by K. Hen. 8. an. 1547. Afterwards he took the Degrees in the said faculty and became so highly valued for his learning, and happy practice therein, that he was examined, approved and admitted into the Physicians Coll. at London and made censor of it in one and the same day. Six weeks after he was chosen one of the Elects of the said Coll. and in 1570 President thereof. He hath written several matters relating to his profession, but whether extant I cannot tell. All that I have seen of his labours is his translation into English of The tables of surgery, briefly comprehending the whole art and practice thereof, &c. Lond. 1585. fol. Written originally by Horatio More, a Florentine Physician. As for his death, which hapned in Fifteen hundred eighty and five, 1585 and other of his works, let the learned Camden tell (l)(l) Ibid. sub an. 1585. you in these words—Nee inter hos, licet minoris notae, silendus hoc etiam anno fato fanctus Richardis Chaldwellus è Coll. Aenei Nasi Oxoniae Med. Doctor, qui ut de reipub. bene mereretur (adscito in partem honoris Barone Lumleio) lectionem Chriurgicam honesto salario in Medicorum collegio Londini à Thoma Linacro fundato instituit. Juxtaque ad Sancti Benedicti inhumatur, monumento laqueis, plintheis, & carchesiis, scamno Hypocratis, glossocomtis & aliis chirurgicis ex Bribasio & Galeno machinamentis exornato. The Coll. of Physicians was then in Knight-riders-street in London, not far from the Church of St. Benedict near Pauls Wharf.