Walter Jones (340)

Election date: 1774

Walter Jones (18 December 1745–31 December 1815) was a physician, politician, and a member of the American Philosophical Society, elected in 1774. Born in Northumberland County, Virginia to a connected family, Jones studied at William and Mary College before crossing the Atlantic to pursue medicine at the University of Edinburgh, graduating with his M.D. in 1769. The following year he returned to Northumberland County and opened a large medical practice. Though he supported American liberation, he turned down an offer from Congress to serve as physician-general in the middle department (1777), however, later he joined the house of delegates sent to the convention of Annapolis (1786). After the establishment of the Constitution, he served in Congress from 1797 to 1799 and from 1803 to 1811. He died in Westmoreland, Virginia and was buried at his family burial ground in Hayfield, Northumberland County.



Member(s): Walter Jones
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Tentamen medicum inaugurale, de dysenteria : quod, annuente summo numine, ex auctoritate Reverendi admodum viri, Gulielmi Robertson, S.S.T.P. academiæ Edinburgenæ præfect : nec non amplissimi senatus academici consensu, et nobilissimae facultatis medicæ decreto, pro gradu doctoris, summisque in medicina honoribus et privilegiis rite et legitime consequendis : eruditorum examini subjicit Gualter Jones, Virginiensis : Prid. 1d. Junios, hora locoque solitis.
Creator(s):
Jones, Walter, 1745-1815 (Author)
Publication:
Edinburgi [Edinburgh]: Apud Balfour, Auld, et Smellie, Academiae Typographos, [1769]
Subjects:
Dysentery -- Early works to 1800.
Record Source:
ESTC
APS Subjects:
Medicine
Editions:
1x 1769 (Edinburgi [Edinburgh])
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