Daniel Whistler

son of Will. Whistl. of Elvington in the Parish of Goring in the dioc. of Oxford, was born at Walthamstow in Essex, educated in Grammar learning in the Free-school at Thame, admitted Prob. Fellow of Merton Coll. in Jan. 1639, aged 20 years or thereabouts; where going thro the severe exercise then kept up, proceeded in Arts four years after. About that time obtaining leave of his Society to travel, he crossed the seas to Holland, took the degree of Doctor of Phys. at Leyden, an. 1645, and returning the year following to his Coll. was incorporated Doctor of his faculty in this University 1647. Afterwards he submitted to the power of the Visitors appointed by Parliament, kept his Fellowship, (tho absent) became superior Reader of Lynacres Lecture, but read not, because he was practising his faculty in London; and in 1653 he went as chief Physitian to the Embassy made by Bulstrode Whitlock into Sweedland. After his return he was made Fellow of the Coll. of Physitians, Fellow of the Royal Society when first instituted, and at length upon the removal of Dr. Tho. Cox for being whiggishly inclined, he was made President of the said College, about S. Lukes day 1683. He hath written and published,

Disputatio medica inauguralis de morbo puerili Anglorum quem patrio idiomate indigenae vocant The Rickets, quam deo suppetias ferente, &c. Lond. 1645 and 1685. qu. This noted Doctor, tho he had married a rich widdow, and did obtain about 1000 l. per an. by his practice, many years before his death, yet he died in the Coll. of Physitians very much in debt, and worse than nothing, on Sunday the eleventh day of May in sixteen hundred eighty and four:1684. whereupon his body was buried, but a little better than in private, towards the upper end of the north isle or alley joyning to the Church called Christ Church in London, which is near the said Coll. of Phys.