Doctor William Batty

Dr. William Battie

Oxford Biography

• Birth: 1703
• Parents: Revd Edward Battie (1664?–1714), rector of Modbury, Devon, and his wife, Catherine, was baptized in Modbury on 1 September 1703
• Wife: a daughter of Barnham Goode
• Children: Anne (d. 1830), who married Sir George Young; and Catherine and Philadelphia, who both married gentlemen.
• Career: found St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics, London, in 1751. He was the first teacher of the subject of insanity in England, and his teachings helped make the treatment of insanity respectable.

Cambridge Search Adm. at King's College, a scholar from Eton, [Buckinghamshire] 1722 . S. of Edward (1682). B. at Modbury, Devon 1704 . Matric. 1722 ; Craven scholar, 1724 ; B.A. 1726/7 ; M.A. 1730 ; M.D. 1737 . Fellow, 1725 . Practised as 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 . Physician to St Luke's Hospital, [London] . Founder of the Battie Scholarships. Died 1776:06:13 . Buried at Kingston-on-Thames, [Surrey] 1776:06:19 . (D.N.B.; Munk, II. 139.) app: Adm. King's College 1722 :app app: a scholar from Eton, [Buckinghamshire] :app app: Son of Edward (1682) and Catherine :app app: Christened [at] Modbury, [Devon] 1703:09:01 :app app: adm. student at Middle Temple, [London] 1742-43:01:27 :app app: Married ??, a dau. of Barnum Goode (1691) :app app: (M. Newbold; Eton Coll. Reg. 1698-1752, p. 23) :app

Other References

• "William Battie", Munk's Roll, Royal College of Physicians of London