For almost 200 years there had been a doctor resident in Bow. I was the twenty-ninth.
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THE MEDICAL GENTLEMEN OF BOW
Crediton
**Link: Crediton Area History & Museum Society**
Medicine in Crediton 1791 Crediton Workhouse Crediton Poor Law Union
George Bent Crediton and Exeter Physician 1730 -1780 John Dyer Crediton Surgeon and Apothecary c1760
George Gregory- Rags to Riches: convict sent to Australia William CookesleyPioneering Crediton Surgeon c1731
The Doctors Holman1803-1863 Giles YardeGrave Robber imprisoned in 1826, then transported to Tasmania in 1837 for theft
Pierre Serph French P.O.W. surgeon 1809 Felo de se: 1838 Double suicide in Crediton Inn
The Hectors' association with William Taylor, quadruple murderer 1862
Samuel Forward: Returned to Crediton in 1856 after being transported to New South Wales in 1821
Jane Roberts: Transported to New South Wales in 1791 for being a vagrant.
Thomas Lampin, born in Crediton, hanged in Nottingham in 1809 for forgery.
Grave Robbing in Crediton1826 Freemasonry in Crediton1804-1806
John Hooper: Reprieved from a death sentence in 1831, after 8 years in jail he claimed to be a surgeon. His son became a millionaire in USA, and his granddaughter married into Parisian aristocracy
Ann Harris- Farmworker's daughter transported to Tasmania for theft - later owns an Oyster Saloon in Brisbane
Early Mid Devon convicts sent to America (1664-1775) Caroline Arundell transported for highway robbery 1850
