Edward Greaves

younger Brother to John Greaves mention’d under the year 1652. p. 87, was born at, or near, Croyden in Surrey, admitted Prob. Fellow of Alls. Coll. in 1634, entred on the Physick line, took both the degrees in that faculty in this University, that of Doctor being compleated in 1641, in which year and after he practised with good success in these parts. In 1643, Nov. 14, he was elected by the Mertonians the superior Lecturer of Physick in their Coll. to read the lecture of that faculty in their publick Refectory, founded with the moneys of Tho. Lynacre Doctor of Physick: But when the Kings cause declined, he retired to London, practised there, and sometimes in the City of Bathe, became a Member of the Coll. of Physitians, Physitian in ord. to his Maj. Ch. 2, and at length a pretended Baronet. He hath written and published,

Morbus Epidemicus, an. 1643. Or the new disease, with the signs, causes, remedies, &c. Oxon. 1643. qu. Written upon occasion of a disease called Morbus campestris, that raged then in Oxon, the King and the Court being there.

Oratio habita in aedibus collegii Medicorum Londinensium 25 Jul. 1661, die Harvaei memoriae dicato. Lond. 1667. qu. He died in his house in Covent Garden on the 11 of Nov. in sixteen hundred and eighty, and was buried in the Parish Church of that place dedicated to St. Paul, 1680. within the Liberty of Westm. He had an elder brother called Nich. Greaves, who from a Communer of S. Maries Hall, became Fellow of Alls. Coll. in 1627, afterwards Proctor of the University, and a Dignitary in Ireland. There was another Brother called Tho. Greaves, whom I have mention’d among these writers under the year 1676.