John Betts

John Betts (c. 1623 – 1695) foi um médico inglês. Sua posição profissional posterior foi afetada por suas crenças religiosas e, depois, por sua atitude non-juring após a Revolução Gloriosa. Life The son of Edward Betts by his wife Dorothy, daughter of John Venables of Rapley in Hampshire, he was born at Winchester. After schooling at Winchester College, he was elected a scholar of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, in February 1643, and took the degree of B.A. on 9 February 1647. Betts was ejected in 1648, during the parliamentary visitation of the University of Oxford. He applied himself to the study of medicine, and accumulated the degrees of M.B. and M.D. at Oxford on 11 April 1654. He was admitted a candidate of the College of Physicians of London on 30 September 1654 and a fellow on 20 October 1664. A Roman Catholic, Betts practised with success in London, mostly among Catholics. Later he was appointed physician in ordinary to King Charles II. His position in the College of Physicians was influenced by religious and political issues. Richard Middleton Massey recorded that Betts had been excluded from it, in the period from 1679 to 1684, of the Exclusion Crisis and Popish Plot repression. With John Gother and others, Betts supported the building of Lime Street Chapel in 1686.