Edmund Littlehales ca.1690-1724
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Edmund LITTLEHALES ca.1690-1724
Biographical Note
Of Shrewsbury. He studied medicine at Leiden and the University of Utrecht, where he graduated MD in 1711. He practised as a physician in London and Maidstone, and was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1717.
Books
Littlehales used an engraved armorial bookplate (Franks 18407); the extent and disposition of his library is not known.
Sources
- Fellows of the Royal Society.
- Gambier Howe, E. R. J. Franks bequest: catalogue of British and American book plates bequeathed to the ... British Museum. London, 1903.
- Innes Smith, R. W., English-speaking students of medicine at the University of Leyden, Edinburgh, 1932, p.142.