. Historical portraits ... the lives of Fletcher .. . ent on more than one occasion, andwas everywhere received with honour, for, besides being a great manof science, he was an excellent scholar. Though he cared nothingfor politics he accompanied the King when he left London at theoutbreak of the Great Rebellion and followed his fortunes at Oxforduntil that city surrendered in 1646. Not unnaturally, therefore, heforfeited his appointment at St. Bartholomews, for which loss itwas little amends that Charles had made him Warden of MertonCollege while the Court was in Oxford. But he seems t
. Historical portraits ... the lives of Fletcher .. . ent on more than one occasion, andwas everywhere received with honour, for, besides being a great manof science, he was an excellent scholar. Though he cared nothingfor politics he accompanied the King when he left London at theoutbreak of the Great Rebellion and followed his fortunes at Oxforduntil that city surrendered in 1646. Not unnaturally, therefore, heforfeited his appointment at St. Bartholomews, for which loss itwas little amends that Charles had made him Warden of MertonCollege while the Court was in Oxford. But he seems to have borneno malice either to his victorious enemies or his defeated friends, andreturned peaceably to London after the failure of the Royalist must have been a wealthy man, and evidently had wealthy relationswith whom he resided in London, for his benefactions to the Collegeof Physicians were very large, and he retained his lectureship untilthe year before his death. The Presidency was offered to him in1654, but he refused it, and died in WILLIAM HARVEYFrom the portrait by C. Janscn belonging to the Royal College of Pliysicians Face p. ,^o6 ROBERT BOYLE (1627 1691) was the seventh son of Richard Boyle, Earl of Cork, and of CatherineFenton, his second wife. Born at Munster Castle, he went to Eton atthe age of eight. In 1638 he went abroad, where he acquired a know-ledge of French, Italian, fencing and tennis, besides studying the newdoctrines of Galileo. The zeal for science thus engendered kepthim, on his return to England in 1644, aloof from the struggle of theCivil War. He became a prominent member of the PhilosophicalCollege, a body not less famous for speculation than for experi-ment. His occasional visits to Ireland convinced him that it was noplace for the pursuit of chemistry, and in 1654 he settled at he was the centre of that group of learned men which after-wards grew into the Royal Society. He made numerous experi-ments in the laborato
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