George Jolliff

or Joyliff, son of Joh. Jol. Gent. was born at East-Stower in Dorsetshire, entred a Commoner in Wadham Coll. in Lent Term, an 1636/7, but before he had spent two years there, he retired to Pembr. Coll. and as a Member thereof took the degrees in Arts, that of Master being compleated in 1643, being about that time a Lieutenant for the King under Ralph Lord Hopton. Afterwards he entred on the Physick line, and exercising himself much in Anatomy with the help of Dr. Clayton Master of his Coll. and the Kings Prof. of Physick, he made some discovery of that fourth sort of Vessels, plainly differing from veins, arteries, and nerves, now called the Lympheducts. Afterwards he went to Clare Hall in Cambridge, took the degree of Doctor of Physick there, and afterwards made a full and open discovery of the said Vasa Lymphatica in Anatomy Lectures in the Coll of Physitians, about the year 1653, Clar. 1653. got to himself a great name, and was for a time much retired to for his knowledge in Physick. He lived mostly at Garlick hithe in London, and dying before the immortal Harvey, not without some perturbation of spirit, as having been bound for the debts of his Brother, was buried in the Church of S. James Garlick hithe, about 1655.