Robert Glynn (1719-1800), physician at Cambridge.

ROBERT GLYNN practised as a physician at Cambridge throughout the whole of the second half of the eighteenth century. The reputation of the university was then lower than at any time in its history and there were few students. Glynn was one of a small group of men who made an attempt to maintain the continuity of medical teaching at Cambridge. In his day he enjoyed an excellent reputation as a physician but was perhaps even more widely known as poet, controversialist and wit. He numbered among his patients many of the great figures of politics and literature, and their reminiscences and letters provide us with much of our knowledge of his life and his methods of practice.