William Croone, F. R. S. (1633-1684)

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One day in November 1749, there was delivered to the house of the vicar of Alconbury, near Huntingdon, a recently published sermon, which gave him so much pleasure that he wrote to the author: ‘I was so delighted with it, and indeed so sensibly affected with several observations, that I intend to give it a second reading soon. You have drawn the outlines for future Preachers to fill up.’ The preacher was none other than Thomas Birch, F. R. S., rector of St Margaret Pattens, London, and later Secretary of the Royal Society. His theme was ‘The wisdom and goodness of God proved from the frame and constitution of man’; his sermon was the first to be preached before the Royal College of Physicians in fulfilment of the will of Dr Croone, first registrar and one of the earliest benefactors of the Royal Society

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