page_title: John Coakley Lettsom
hierarchical_section_title: John Coakley Lettsom
caption_attribution_description: John Coakley Lettsom (1733-1810), physician, with his family, in the garden of Grove Hill, Camberwell, ca. 1786. Oil painting by an English painter, ca. 1786. Iconographic Collections Keywords: Ann Miers Lettsom; John Miers Lettsom; Pickering Lettsom; Eliza Lettsom; Edward Lettsom; Mary Anne Lettsom; Samuel Fothergill Lettsom; John Coakley Lettsom Left to right: Ann Miers Lettsom (wife of John Coakley Lettsom), Mary Ann Lettsom, Eliza (?) Lettsom (so identified by Abraham, though having been born in November 1785 she seems to have been too young: Edward Lettsom, b. 1781, seems more likely), Pickering Lettsom, John Miers Lettsom, John Coakley Lettsom, and Samuel Fothergill Lettsom
context_page_description: John Coakley Lettsom was an English physician and philanthropist born on Little Jost Van Dyke in the British Virgin Islands into an early Quaker settlements there. He was the son of a West Indian planter and an Irish mother. His surname is sometimes spelled Lettsome. He grew up to be an abolitionist. He founded the Medical Society of London in 1773, convinced that a combined membership of physicians, surgeons, and apothecaries would prove productive. The Society, the oldest such in the United Kingdom, remains as a forum for all branches of medicine, housed in London's medical community at Lettsome House, Chandos Street, near Cavendish Square. As its founder, president and benefactor, Lettsom was its mainstay.
context_section_description: John Coakley Lettsom (1744–1 November 1815) was an English physician and philanthropist born on Little Jost Van Dyke in the British Virgin Islands into an early Quaker settlements there. He was the son of a West Indian planter and an Irish mother. His surname is sometimes spelled Lettsome. He grew up to be an abolitionist. He founded the Medical Society of London in 1773, convinced that a combined membership of physicians, surgeons, and apothecaries would prove productive. The Society, the oldest such in the United Kingdom, remains as a forum for all branches of medicine, housed in London's medical community at Lettsome House, Chandos Street, near Cavendish Square. As its founder, president (1775–1776, 1784–1785, 1808–1811 and 1813–1815) and benefactor, Lettsom was its mainstay.
caption: John Coakley Lettsom (1744-1 Nov 1815), physician, with his family in the garden of his house in Grove Hill, Camberwell, Surrey. Oil painting by an unknown English artist, ca.1786. Wellcome Library
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