Men of Kent and Kentishmen/John Thorpe, Physician and Antiquary
John Thorpe,
PHYSICIAN AND ANTIQUARY,
Was born at Penshurst in 1682, and educated at Oxford, where he took his degrees in Medicine. In 1705 he was elected a member of the Royal Society, to whose "Transactions" he contributed a paper on "Worms in the Heads of Sheep" in 1704, and became assistant to Sir Hans Sloane in the publication of that Journal. In 1715 he removed to Rochester, where he practised till his death in 1750, and where he published several articles concerning Rochester Bridge, and other subjects of local interest.
[See Chalmer's "Biographical Dictionary," and Nichols's "Literary Anecdotes."]