Ancestry of George Heberden (*1833)

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William Heberden
* 13/08/1710 London
+ 17/05/1801 Windsor
(Physician)

Mary Wollaston
* 1730
+ 22/02/1813

x 19/01/1760

Charles Miller
* West Lavant, West Sussex
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Michael Underwood
* 1737 West Molesey, Surrey
+ 14/03/1820 Knightsbridge
(Physician)

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William Heberden
* 23/03/1767
+ 19/02/1845
(Physician)

Elizabeth Catherine Miller
* ~1776
+ 21/05/1812 Pall Mall

x 01/10/1795

John Holen Underwood
* 1767
+ 30/11/1839 Cheltenham, England
(Physician in Madras)

Sarah
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+ 1858 St George in the East (Madras)

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William Heberden
* 08/01/1797
+ after 1872
(Reverend)

Elvina Ranier Underwood
* 10/06/1806 Madras (India)
+ 04/08/1854

x 03/02/1824

George Heberden
* 27/09/1833
+ 02/03/1891 Ceres, South Africa

x Dorothea Barnetta Gibbs

William Heberden and Mary Wollaston
William was first married to Elizabeth, daughter of John Martin of Overbury. They married June 1752 at St Martins in the Fields, she died 26/11/1754 and was burried at Overbury.  
Children:  NN ;  Thomas * 28/09/1754, sometime fellow of St Johns College Cambridge, later canon of Exeter, +17/10/1843.
William remarried 19/01/1760 to Mary Wollaston.
Children from this marriage: 
William, died soon;  William *23/03/1767, married to Elisabeth Miller (see below);  George, died unmarried 1786;  Charles, fellow of St John's College, +13/03/1796;  Mary *02/08/1763, married 17.06.1877 to George Leonard Jenyns *1764, canon of Ely, +25/02/1848;  Charlotte *24/06/1768, +05/07/1768;  Harriet, died an infant.

William Heberden had a distinguished career.1  Entered St Saviour's Grammar School aged 7 (his father died that year) and showed prowess in Greek, latin and divinity, so that he could go 1724 to St John's College, MA in 1732, to become MD in 1739. He remained ten years at Cambridge practicing medicine, and gave an annual course on materia medica.

In 1752, this branch of the extended Heberden family had been granted a family coat of arms and crest.
According to the British Herald (1830) it was borne by both (half-)brothers rev. Thomas Heberden, Canon of Exeter and M.D. William Heberden of Datchet, near Windsor (William the younger).

1746 he became fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in London, moving to London in 1748.

Heberden, who was also a classical scholar, published several papers in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society; and among his noteworthy contributions to the Medical Transactions (issued, largely at his suggestion, by the College of Physicians) were papers on chickenpox (1767) and angina pectoris (1768). His Commentarii de morborum historia et curatione, the result of notes made in his pocket-book at the bedside of his patients, were published in 1802 and again in 1807. In the year following the first edition, an English translation appeared, and further publications in 1806 and 1818. The English translation is believed to be from the pen of his son, William Heberden (1767–1845; see below).

Heberden studied the painful inflammation of the finger joints, especially those toward the end of the fingers, swellings now know as due to osteoartritis. The hard bony swellings are since called Heberden Nodes (published by him as a chapter in his "Commentaries on The History and Cure of Diseases").

At the age of seventy-two he partially retired, spending his summers at a house he had taken at Windsor, but he continued to practice in London during the winter for some years longer.  William died in 1801. His tomb is in Windsor Parish Church. Mary died 22/02/1813 aged 83.

William Heberden (later also called the Younger) and Elizabeth Catherine Miller
Elizabeth was daugther (and heir) of Charles Miller of Shopwich Oving Co. Essex.
Children:  William *08/01/1797, married Elvina Underwood (see below);  Charles *06/04/1799, Barrister at law of Lincoln Inns (1832); 


2 Upper Brook Street, Mayfair

Elizabeth Catherine *03/02/1798 at St Georges Hannover Square, +08/02/1833, burried Great Bookham, married Gerrard Thomas Andrews, Reverend, Rector at All Hallows Broad Street London, +22/06/1851 aged 56;  Mary *16/02/1804, unmarried;  Anne *31/08/1805 at St James Westminster, married 15/05/1823 Walker King, Reverend, archdeacon of Rochester;  Emily Henrietta *18/03/1807, living unmarried in 1872;  Henry *09/07/1802, +22/04/1828 unmarried;  George, Reverend, +22/04/1829 and burried at Windsor, married 21/08/1828 Elizabeth Barchard, who remarried Charles Fassott Burnett, and she died +19/04/1864;  Frederick *13/12/1810, Reverend, married 03/07/1834 Ellen Barble Allen, both alive 1872.

William was educated at Charterhouse School and St John's College, Oxford and followed his father into medicine becoming the Physician at St George's Hospital (1793–1803). See also W Heberden the Younger in Wikipedia. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1791.
William also invested in psychiatric treatments (see "The psychiatric efforts of William Heberden Jr.", Cantu & Cantu, Bull. Hist Med 41:132-139, 1967).

William had a number of important and honourable appointments: he became physician extraordinary to the Queen (Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz) in 1795, to the King (George III) 1805, physician ordinary to the Queen 1806, to the King 1809. He attended King George III in his last illness in 1820.
Elizabeth died in 1812.
William and children then moved to Datchet, near Windsor, and he restricted his practice to attendance at Windsor castle. They lived from 1815 to 1820 at 2 Upper Brook Street in Mayfair (see photo).
When William died 1845 he was burried in the family vault at Windsor. The gravestone is on the south wall in the St John the Baptist Church, Windsor, Windsor and Maidenhead Royal Borough, Berkshire, England.

William Heberden and Elvina Ranier Underwood

St Nicolas Church, Great Bookham
(from Wikipedia)

William studied to become reverend. Later he was vicar of Great Bookham, Co. Surrey.
Children: William *11/12/1824, officer in the Indian Army, +10/11/1858 Calcutta (India), burried in Benares (India), married first xx/11/1847 Henrietta Maria Jane Cumming, +01/09/1850 and burried at Benares (India), married 2nd 22/09/1851 at Allahabadin (India) Constance Elizabeth Pigott, living in 1872;  Elvina Catherine *22/04/1826 +09/02/1833;  Alfred Charles *22/11/1827, officer in the Indian Army, +27/06/1857 at massacre of Cawnpore (India), unmarried;  Henry *28/08/1829, Captain Royal Artillery, +after 1872, unmarried;  George *27/09/1833, +after 1872 (see main page);  Agnes *06/01/1835 and died that day;  John *08/05/1836, Jesus College Cambridge, Reverend, married 31/07/1866 Elizabeth Thompson;  Edward *09/10/1837, +12/04/1838;  Francis *25/03/??, civil engineer;  Catherina Elizabeth *27/03/??, +after 1872, unmarried.
 

Charles Miller and NN
He was from Lavant. He and his wife had only one child: Elizabeth Catherine.

Michael Underwood and NN
Underwood was the first physician‐accoucheur to be appointed to the Royal College of Physicians in London. The same year, 1784, he published a textbook which did much to establish paediatrics as an emerging discipline in its own right. He is a relevant figure in the history of medicine and pediatrics for having given the first known description of several childhood diseases, infantile paralysis included. See Underwood Wikipedia. and M Underwood, by P.M. Dunn (2006).
Underwood was appointed physician to the Princess of Wales (wife of the future George IV), and, in 1796, attended the birth of her daughter, the Princess Charlotte.

John Holen Underwood and Sarah
John became assistant surgeon in Fort St George, Madras, on the south-eastern coast of India. There, in 1797, he initiated a hospital for the indigent Indians.
Children a.o.:  John James, *1797 Fort St. George, Madras, East Indies;  Camilla Ann, *ca.1799 (married 1817 Robert Greig);  Frederick Forbes, *1805 Madras;  Elvina Ranier, *1806 Madras;  "daughter" by "Lady of" J.Underwood *1808.
For more on him see da553m.

1  The information above was taken foremost from William Heberden in Wikipedia, where numerous sentences are taken from the Encyclopedia Brittanica, Vol. 13, p.167.
The British Herald, or Cabinet of Armorial Bearings of the Nobility & Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland, by Thomas Robson, Vol II, 1830.

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