Dr william battie biography

William Battie, MD, was born at Modbury, in the county of Devon, in 1704, and was the son of the rev.
English physician, mad-doctor and philologist.
William Battie was an English physician who published in 1758 the first lengthy book on the treatment of mental illness, A Treatise on Madness, and by extending methods of treatment to the poor as well as the affluent, helped raise psychiatry to a.

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Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Battie, William

BATTIE, WILLIAM (1704–1776), physician, son of Edward Battie, rector of Modbury, Devonshire, was born there in 1704. He was a king's scholar at Eton, and in 1722 entered King's College, Cambridge. In 1724 he was a candidate for the Craven scholarship, and, the electors being equally divided, the appointment lapsed after a year to the founder's family, when Lord Craven gave it to Battie. Battie in 1747 founded a similar scholarship at Cambridge worth 20l. a year, which was called after him, and he nominated the scholars during his lifetime. He graduated B.A. in 1720, M.A. in 1730, and M.D. in 1737. He began to practise physic at Cambridge, and gave anatomical lectures at King's College (H. Walpole, Letters, i. xii.). In 1728 he published an edition of Aristotle's ‘Rhetoric,’ and in 1729 one of Isocrates' ‘Orations.’ The latter was ridiculed in some verses by Dr. Morell, published in the ‘Grub Street Journal,’ 1730; it was republished, with additions, in two volumes in 1749. He afterwards settled at Uxbridge.

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William Battie FRCP FRS (1703 - 1776)

DrWilliamBattieFRCP FRS aka Batty

Born in Modbury, Devon, England

Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]

[sibling(s) unknown]

Descendants

Father of Katharine (Battie) Rashleigh, Anne (Battie) Young and Philadelphia (Batty) Call

Died at about age 73in Kingston, Surrey, England

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Biography

Dr William Battie/Batty (1703-1776) was the son of the Rev Edward Battie and Catherine (?).

He was born and baptied on the 1st of September 1703 at Modbury, Devon where his father was vicar of that place.

He was eductaed at Eton and in the year 1722 was transferred to King’s college, Cambridge, where he succeeded in obtaining a scholarship, upon the nomination of the Earl of Craven. He obtained B.A. 1726/7, M.A. 1730, M.D. 1737, Fellow 1725.^[1]

He practised as a physician at Cambridge, [Cambridgeshire], and Uxbridge, Middlesex and afterwards in London (F.R.C.P. 1738 ; Censor, Elect., etc. President 1764 F.R.S. 1742).

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William Battie

William Battie est un des plus éminent psychiatre anglais du XVIII^e siècle. Précurseur du mouvement philanthropique, il a édité en 1758 une publication sur le traitement de la maladie mentale, « un traité sur la folie » (Treatise on madnes).

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William Battie (parfois Batty) naît en 1704 en Angleterre. Il a pour parent le révérend Edward Battie, ancien sous-maître à Eton qui décèdera en 1714, et Catherine Battie^[1]. Il commence ses études à Eton puis obtient une bourse d'étudeq pour étudier la physique au King’s College, à Cambridge. Il y obtient son A.B. en 1726 puis son A.M. en 1730 et sa licence de médecine, lui permettant également d'enseigner l'anatomie à Cambridge. Horace Walpole sera un de ses élèves^[2]^,^[3]^,^[4].

Peu après, il obtient grâce à l'influence d'un cousin un poste de médecin à Uxbridge. En 1737-1738, il déménage à Londres après avoir obtenu son doctorat en médecine à Cambridge^[3]^,^[2].

En 1742, il devient chef de service au Bethlem Royal Hospital, pour soigner les