Men of Kent and Kentishmen/Jonathan Goddard
Jonathan Goddard,
PHYSICIAN,
Was born at Greenwich in 1617, and educated at Magdalen Hall, Oxford, and at Cambridge, where he took a degree in Medicine. He was chosen Fellow of the College of Physicians in 1646, and in the following year he became lecturer in Anatomy, on which lectures his chief reputation is founded. He was a parliamentarian in politics and was appointed head-physician to the army, and represented the University of Oxford in the Little Parliament. At the Restoration he was removed from his appointments, but remained a Fellow of the College of Physicians, and was nominated a Fellow of the Royal Society at its first institution. He died March 24, 1674. He was the author of "A Discourse concerning Physic," and many other Medical and Scientific Treatises.
[See "Wood's Athenæ Oxon.," by Bliss; "Birch's Royal Society," "Wood's Gresham Professors," and "Biographia Britannica."]