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Early lifeMonsey, son of Robert Monsey, a non-juror cleric, and Mary (daughter of Roger Clopton, rector of Downham),[2] was born at Hackford with Whitwell, Norfolk, and educated at home, at Woodbridge School and at Pembroke College, Cambridge (BA, 1714), before studying medicine under Sir Benjamin Wrench MD of Norwich (died 1747). Monsey was admitted to the Royal College of Physicians in 1723. He then practised in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, where he never earned more than £300 a year, but married well.{{sfn|Bevan|2004}} Move to LondonMonsey was lucky enough to be called to treat Francis Godolphin, 2nd Earl of Godolphin, who was taken ill with apoplexy on the way to Newmarket.[2] Godolphin – taken with Monsey's skill, raucous sense of humour and insolent familiarity – persuaded him to move to London, where he introduced him to patients such as the prime minister, Sir Robert Walpole, Lord Chesterfield and other prominent Whigs. He also built up literary connections. For many years he paid court to the bluestocking Elizabeth Montagu, writing rhymed letters to her in the style of Swift. His friendship with David Garrick was broken after a quarrel. Dr Johnson disapproved of his coarse wit.{{sfn|Bevan|2004}} According to William Munk, "Monsey maintained his original plainness of manners, and with an unreserved sincerity sometimes spoke truth in a manner that gave offence; and as old age approached, he acquired an asperity of behaviour and a neglect of decorum.... As a physician he adhered to the tenets of the Boerhaavian school, and despised modern improvements in theory and practice." Monsey was a free-thinker in religious matters, or as Munk put it, "he shook off the manacles of superstition [and] he fell into the comfortless bigotry of scepticism."[2] One man whom Monsey admired was the Dutch-born physician, philosopher and satirist Bernard Mandeville. Monsey's copy of Mandeville's The Fable of the Bees survives in the library of Sir John Soane's Museum, London, to which he presented it in 1781.[3] LegacyAnecdotes about Monsey's eccentricities and unseemly language were collected after his death.[4] He held his appointment to Chelsea Hospital, also obtained through Godolphin, until his death there on 26 December 1788 aged 96, after which he was dissected in a post mortem examination before students of Guy's Hospital, as he had requested.{{sfn|Bevan|2004}} An extensive medical and personal correspondence between Monsey and the noted Norwich physician and philanthropist Benjamin Gooch survives in the British Library.[5] On his death Monsey left £16,000 to his only daughter Charlotte, who had married William Alexander, brother to James Alexander, 1st Earl of Caledon.[6] Notes1. ^The Early Journals of Fanny Burney, ed. Larse E. Troide and Stewart J. Cooke. Vol V. 17821783 (Montreal: McGillQueen's UP), p. 385. [https://books.google.hu/books?id=785ld7lsuf0C&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false Retrieved 27 December 2014]. 2. ^1 2 Royal College of Physicians, lives of the fellows. Retrieved 27 December 2014. 3. ^Material on Monsey in a Dutch website devoted to Mandeville. Retrieved 27 December 2014. 4. ^E. g. in A sketch of the life and character of the late Dr. Monsey, physician to the Royal Hospital at Chelsea; with anecdotes of persons of the first rank in Church and State (London, 1789). 5. ^Take Heart Health Check ; British Library search page Retrieved 27 December 2014. 6. ^Elizabeth Montagu, the Queen of the Bluestockings: Her Correspondence from 1720 to 1761, Volume 2, p. 98. [https://books.google.hu/books?id=onslxuaBGBIC&pg=PA98&lpg=PA98&dq=Charlotte+Messenger+Monsey&source=bl&ots=gMO-D341SS&sig=ZlmtctfLXtVOMe8EfZmpZqGbZvQ&hl=en&sa=X&ei=nreeVMnOCoOHygOe3oGoCw&ved=0CEUQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=Charlotte%20Messenger%20Monsey&f=false Retrieved 27 December 2014.] References
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