Blackerby Fairfax

Blackerby Fairfax (fl. 1728) was an English physician.

Life

Blackerby Fairfax was the son of Nathaniel Fairfax. He was educated at Woodbridge School and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where he took the two degrees in arts, B.A. 1689, M.A. 1693, and was created M.D. ‘comitiis regiis’ in 1728.[1][2] After leaving Cambridge he studied medicine at the university of Leyden, of which he was admitted M.D. on 18 April 1696.[3] He was appointed a physician in the navy, but had retired by 1717.

Works

He wrote a number of philosophical works reflecting his wide range of scientific and political interests:

References

  1. Cantabr. Graduati, 1787, 135
  2. "Fairfax, Blackerby (FRFS686B)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  3. Leyden Students, Index Soc., 34

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Fairfax, Nathaniel". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900. 

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