Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Welsted, Robert
WELSTED, ROBERT (1671–1735), physician, born in 1671, was the son of Leonard Welsted of Bristol. He matriculated from St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, on 4 Dec. 1687, and was elected in 1689 to a demyship at Magdalen College, which he held till 1698, graduating B.A. on 25 June 1691, and M.A. on 12 May 1694. He was admitted an extra-licentiate of the London College of Physicians on 11 Dec. 1695. He was then practising medicine at Bristol, where he remained some years, but, eventually removing to London, was admitted a licentiate on 3 Sept. 1710. He was admitted a fellow of the Royal Society on 20 March 1717–18, and died at Tavistock Street, London, on 1 Feb. 1734–5.
He was the author of:
- ‘De Ætate vergente Liber,’ London, 1724, 8vo.
- ‘De adulta Ætate Liber,’ London, 1725, 8vo.
- ‘De Medicina Mentis Liber,’ London, 1726, 8vo.
- ‘Tentamen de variis Hominum Naturis,’ London, 1730, 8vo.
- ‘Tentamen alterum de propriis Naturarum Habitibus,’ London, 1732, 8vo.
He also translated ‘The Works of Dionysius Longinus on the Sublime … with some Remarks on the English Poets,’ London, 1712, 8vo; and with Richard West edited Pindar (Oxford, 1692, fol.)
[Munk's Royal Coll. of Phys. ii. 32; Bloxam's Registers of Magdalen College, vi. 70; Boulter's Letters, 1769, i. 93–4; Gent. Mag. 1735, p. 107.]
Dictionary of National Biography, Errata (1904), p.278
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