claim: Georges Gilles de la Tourette failed to describe symptoms in nine patients.
evidence: Sir Richard Skeffington -LRB- died 2 June 1647 -RRB- was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1625 and 1647 .. House of Commons. House of Commons of England. Skeffington was born after 1590 , the second son of Sir William Skeffington , 1st Baronet of Fisherwick , Staffordshire , and his wife Elizabeth Dering of Surrenden Kent .. Staffordshire. Staffordshire ( UK Parliament constituency ). He matriculated from Magdalene College , Cambridge in Autumn 1615 .. He was knighted on 20 August 1624 .. In 1625 , he was elected Member of Parliament for Tamworth .. Member of Parliament. Member of Parliament. Tamworth. Tamworth ( UK Parliament constituency ). He was elected MP for Staffordshire as a recruiter to the Long Parliament in 1646 .. Staffordshire. Staffordshire ( UK Parliament constituency ). Long Parliament. Long Parliament. Skeffington died in 1647 and was buried at Broxbourne , Hertfordshire where there is a monument .. Skeffington married Anne Newdigate , daughter of Sir John Newdigate of Arbury , Warwickshire .