Edmund Littlehales ca.1690-1724

Edmund LITTLEHALES ca.1690-1724

Littlehales's bookplate (Yale University Digital Collections)

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.
• Yale University Digital Collections.