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John Arbuthnot

1667 - 1735

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John Arbuthnot FRS (baptised 29 April 1667 – 27 February 1735), often known simply as Dr Arbuthnot, was a Scottish physician, satirist and polymath in London. He is best remembered for his contributions to mathematics, his membership in the Scriblerus Club (where he inspired Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels book III and Alexander Pope's Peri Bathous, Or the Art of Sinking in Poetry, Memoirs of Martin Scriblerus, and possibly The Dunciad), and for inventing the figure of John Bull. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. John Arbuthnot is the 559th most popular physician (up from 574th in 2019), the 3,416th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,534th in 2019) and the 50th most popular British Physician.

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Among physicians, John Arbuthnot ranks 559 out of 726. Before him are Antonius Musa, Arkady Vorobyov, Noël Martin Joseph de Necker, Sergey Botkin, Willem Johan Kolff, and William Beaumont. After him are Julius Friedrich Cohnheim, Devi Shetty, Friedrich Robert Faehlmann, María Teresa Ferrari, Ludwig Aschoff, and Guy Patin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1667, John Arbuthnot ranks 21. Before him are James Louis Sobieski, Melusine von der Schulenburg, Duchess of Kendal, Silahdar Damat Ali Pasha, Pietro Ottoboni, William Whiston, and Jacob Heinrich von Flemming.  Among people deceased in 1735, John Arbuthnot ranks 17. Before him are Peter Artedi, Carlo Ruzzini, Johann Krieger, Petr Brandl, George Frederick Charles, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, and Jacob Bruce. After him is Princess Sophia Hedwig of Denmark.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Arbuthnot ranks 3,417 out of 8,785. Before him are Constance Collier (1878), Hugh Trevor-Roper (1914), Thérèse Coffey (1971), John Keegan (1934), Peter Walker (1912), and John Steiner (1941). After him are Vanessa Kirby (1988), David Almond (1951), George Larner (1875), John Moresby (1830), Benjamin Robins (1707), and Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United Kingdom

Among physicians born in United Kingdom, John Arbuthnot ranks 50. Before him are Richard Bright (1789), William Hunter (1718), Thomas Francis Wade (1818), Anthony Carlisle (1768), John Crawfurd (1783), and Frederick Twort (1877). After him are Francis Buchanan-Hamilton (1762), Patrick Steptoe (1913), James Paget (1814), Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1899), Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer (1850), and Richard Leach Maddox (1816).

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