From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Peter Bowne
Peter Bowne
Peter Bowne (1575-1624?), was an English physician. triculated at Leyden University on 16 Nov. 1602, and is
Bowne was a native of Bedfordshire and became at described in the register as ’Anglus-Londinensis’.
the age of fifteen a scholar of Corpus Christi College, Ox-
ford, in April 1590. He was afterwards elected a fellow of
that society. After taking degrees in arts he applied him-
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self to medicine, and proceeded B.M. and D.M. at Oxford "Bowne, Peter". Dictionary of National Biography. Lon-
on 12 July 1614. He was admitted a candidate of the Col- don: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
lege of Physicians on 24 Jan. 1616-17, and fellow on 21 Persondata
April 1620. On 3 March 1623-4 Richard Spicer was admit-
Name Bowne, Peter
ted a fellow in his place.
According to Wood, Bowne practised medicine in Alternative names
London, ’and was much in esteem for it in the latter end Short description
of King James I and beginning of Charles I.’ It is proba- Date of birth 1575
ble, nevertheless, that 1624 was the date of his death. He
Place of birth
was the author of ’Pseudo-Medicorum Anatomia,’ Lon-
don, 1624, 4to, in which his name appears as Bounæus. A Date of death
Laurentius Bounæus, probably a son of Peter Bowne, ma- Place of death
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