Sir William Read, cobbler and tailor who became a mountebank, quack doctor, and finally oculist to King George I and Queen Anne, died 1715. Engraving by R. Grave from James Caulfield's Portraits, Memoirs and Characters of Remarkable Persons, London, 1819.

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