Benjamin Wells

second son of John Wells the famous Mathematician of Deptford in Kent, was born there, or at least in that County, became a Communer of S. Albans Hall in 1632 aged 16 years, took one degree in Arts, and then being translated to that of S. Mary, was admitted Master as a member thereof, an. 1639, and the next year was elected Probat. Fellow of Alls. College. Afterwards entring on the Physick line, he was admitted to practise that faculty in Dec. an. 1650, having been about that time in some of the Western Plantations. Afterwards he setled at Greenwich alias East Greenwich in his native County, where he practised his faculty, but being of a morose temper, tho able in his profession, was but little resorted to by Patients, which was the reason he died very indigent. He hath written,

A treatise of the Gout, or Joint Evil. Lond. 1669. in tw. and translated into English The Expert Physitian: learnedly treating of all agues and feavers. Lond. 1657. oct. Written originally by Dr. Brice Bauderon. This Mr. Wells died at East Greenwich before mentioned, in April in sixteen hundred seventy and eight,1678. and was buried in the Church there on the 13 day of the same month. John Wells Esq. the father before mention’d, was Store-keeper of the naval Arsenal at Deptford, a charge of good credit, and requiring extraordinary application, was much valued for his mathematical sufficiencies by Briggs, Gunter, Gellibrand, Oughtred, &c. and learnedly wrot—Sciographia, Or the art of Shadows, plainly demonstrating out of the Sphaere how to project both great and small circles, upon any place whatsoever, with a new conceit of the reflecting of the Sun beams upon a Dial, &c. Lond. 1635. oct. He married Catherine daughter of Thom. Wallenger Esq. by Benedicta Gonson his wife, who dying 5 Jul. 1634, aged 47, was buried in the Church at Deptford. Afterwards Joh. Wells went into Hampshire, and lived and died at Brembridge, as ’tis said, leaving a son of both his names to succeed him in his office at Deptford.