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About John Elliot
John Elliot MD was a physician and scientist in eighteenth-century London who was the first person to conjecture that different parts of the retina respond to particular colours of light. He was obsessed with Mary Boydell, niece of the publisher John Boydell, and in 1787 was arrested for attempting to murder her. Although acquitted of attempted murder, he starved himself to death while awaiting trial for assault in Newgate Gaol.
Everything about John Elliot →- Occupation
- physician, scientist, apothecary
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Great Britain
- Born
- 1747
- Died
- July 22, 1787