JOHN CLARKE, PHYSICIAN, PHILANTHROPIST, PREACHER AND PATRIOT.

John Michell Clarke

John Crane (1571--1652); the Cambridge apothecary and philanthropist.

JOHN CRANE lived in Cambridge for most of his life and died there, a wealthy man, on 26 May 1652 at the age of eighty-one. His name has been kept alive to the present day in Cambridge University by his Charity for paying the medical expenses of poor, sick scholars. The towns of Wisbech, Cambridge, King's Lynn, and Ipswich also received benefactions in his will for setting up young men in busine...

Bruno Miller and John-Paul Clarke

1. Abstract Investment decisions in new aircraft development programs are difficult because of large capital expenditures, long lead times, and many technical and market uncertainties. A flexible strategy that takes advantage of the ability of managers to incorporate information as uncertainties are resolved is suggested as a means to manage risk. In this paper, the use of real options analysis...

Early clinical pathologists. 2. Thomas Hodgkin: pathologist, physician, and philanthropist.

John Coakley Lettsome (1744-1815) Philanthropologist and physician

John and his brother were the only surviving pair of seven sets of twins born on Little Jost Van Dyke to Edward and Mary Lettsom (variant spelling was common). At the age of six, John was sent alone to England to be educated, and at school in Lancashire he came to the attention of the Quaker, Samuel Fothergill. Fothergill recommended him to his brother John, physician to St Thomas’s Hospital in...