Noel Broxholme

Noel Broxholme, M.D. (1686–1748), was an English physician.

Early life Broxholme was, according to William Stukeley, a native of Stamford, Lincolnshire, of humble origin, the son of Robert Broxholme of Oakham, Rutland. He was admitted on the foundation at Westminster School in 1700, and, in 1704, was elected to Trinity College, Cambridge. He proceeded, however, to Christ Church, Oxford, where he was nominated student 23 July 1705, and graduated B.A. on 20 May 1709 and M.A. on 18 April 1711.

In 1709, he had commenced his medical studies, under Richard Mead, at St. Thomas's Hospital, and, in 1715, was elected to one of the first of the Radcliffe travelling fellowships. it was printed the same year in quarto, and is remarkable for its elegant yet unaffected Latinity.

He was one of the six physicians appointed to St. George's Hospital, Lanesborough House, at the first general board held 19 Oct. 1733, and in the following year was made first physician to the Prince of Wales, 'with salary annexed,'

Personal life On 7 May 1730 at Trinity Chapel, Knightsbridge, he married Amy Hammond, widow of the politician William Dowdeswell, of Pull Court at Bushley in Worcestershire, and daughter of the poet Anthony Hammond. Her sons William Dowdeswell (1721-1775) and George Dowdeswell became significant beneficiaries in Broxholme's will. In 1755 Robert Taylor (1710-1762), royal physician, speaking of his exceptional intellectual and personal qualities, described Broxholme as an ornament to the Radcliffe award. His widow survived him by six years, dying in 1754.

In 1754 there appeared A Collection of Receipts in Physic, purporting to be Dr Broxholme's remedies.