Edmund Newdigate 1702/3-1779
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Edmund NEWDIGATE 1702/3-1779
Biographical Note
Son of John Newdigate of Holt, Norfolk, physician. Admitted at Leiden University, 1726; MB Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge 1725, MD 1729. He initially practised as a physician at Watton, Norfolk, before moving to Ipswich in 1748, where he died.
Books
Newdigate used an engraved armorial bookplate (Franks 21717). The extent of his library is not known; in his will, he left all his books, along with all his other goods, chattels and personal estate, to his sister Mary.
Sources
- Will of Edmund Newdigate, the National Archives PROB 11/1053/325.
- Gambier Howe, E. R. J. Franks bequest: catalogue of British and American book plates bequeathed to the ... British Museum. London, 1903-4.
- Venn, J. and J. A., Alumni Cantabrigienses, Cambridge, 1922.