HEBERDEN (WILLIAM), a practical physician of great celebrity, was born in London in the year 1710. He was sent at a very early age, near the end of 1724, to St John's College, Cambridge. He took his first degree in 1728, and obtained a fellowship about 1780; he became M. A. in 1782, and M. D. in 1789. He remained at Cambridge about ten years longer as a practitioner of and gave an annual course of lectures on the Materia Medics.. In 1746 he became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in London, and two years afterwards he left Cambridge, having presented to St John's College the specimens which had been subservient to his lectures. He also added to this donation, a few years afterwards, a collection of astronomiCal instruments of some value. Having determined to establish himself in London, he was elected a Fel low of the Royal Society in 1769 ; and he was em ployed in a very extensive medical practice for more than thirty years. When he became sensible that
his age required some indulgence, he resolved to pass his summers at a house which he had taken at Windsor; but he continued his practice in the win ter for some In January 1760 he mar ried Mary, daughter of W. Wollaston, Esq., by whom he had five sons and three daughters; but he surtived them all, except the present very respectable Dr W. Heberden, and Mary, married to the Rev. G. Jenyns. In 1778 he was an honorary member of the Royal Society of Medicine at Paris.