page_title: Richard Saumarez
section_title: Life
hierarchical_section_title: Richard Saumarez / Life
caption_attribution_description: The Circus, Bath, England, United-Kingdom
context_page_description: Richard Saumarez FRS FRSE FSA FRCS was a British surgeon and medical author.
  Saumarez was a prolific writer, with advanced ideas regarding the subject of medicine and medical education. Coleridge identified and praised Saumarez for his "masterly force of reasoning, and the copiousness of induction, with which he has assailed, and subverted the tyranny of the mechanic system in physiology; established not only the existence of final causes, but their necessity and efficiency to every system that merits the name of philosophical; and, substituting life and progressive power for the contradictory inert force, has a right to be known and remembered as the first instaurator of the dynamic philosophy in England."
context_section_description: He was born in Guernsey on 13 November 1764 to Matthieu Saumarez and Cartarette Le Marchant. Both parents died when he was young, and he later went to London to study medicine at the London Hospital. His older brothers were Admiral James Saumarez, 1st Baron de Saumarez and General Sir Thomas Saumarez
  He trained under Sir William Blizard. He was admitted a member of the Company of Surgeons on 7 April 1785.
  He married Martha Le Mesurier on 7 January 1786 in Guernsey. She died in 1801 and on 29 May 1804 he married a widow, Mrs Elizabeth Hetherington (née Enderby).
  He was also elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1834.
  In 1788, Saumarez became surgeon to the Magdalen Hospital, Streatham, until 1 March 1805 when he was appointed an honorary governor. 
  He had a large and lucrative practice in London until 1818. He then retired to Bath, where he died at 21 The Circus on 28 January 1835.
caption: The Circus in Bath
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