John Coakley Lettsom
John Coakley Lettsom FRS (1744 – 1 November 1815, also
Lettsome) was an English physician and philanthropist born on
Little Jost Van Dyke in the
British Virgin Islands into an early
Quaker settlement. The son of a West Indian planter and an Irish mother, he grew up to be an
abolitionist. He founded the
Medical Society of London in 1773, convinced that a combined membership of physicians, surgeons and apothecaries would prove productive. As the oldest such in the United Kingdom, it is housed in London's medical community at Lettsome House, Chandos Street, near
Cavendish Square. Lettsom was its mainstay, as founder, president (1775–1776, 1784–1785, 1808–1811 and 1813–1815) and benefactor.
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