Christopher Green (1652–1741) was a

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academic, Regius Professor of Physic from 1700 to 1741. The son of another Christopher Green, cook of

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, Green was christened at St Botolph's church,

, on 23 February 1651/52. He was seven years at the school of a Mr Griffith before he was admitted to Caius at the age of sixteen on 13 December 1667 and was a

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from

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1668 until

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1674, when he was elected a junior

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of his college. He graduated

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in 1671-72 and

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in 1675, and from 1676 was ethical lecturer in the college. He was

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in 1682 and steward from 1684 to 1686, during which time he graduated

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in 1685. He was appointed college

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in 1687, then the next year lecturer in

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.John Venn, Ernest Stewart Roberts, Edward John Gross, ''Biographical history of Gonville and Caius college, 1349-1897: containing a list of all known members of the college from the foundation to the present time, with biographical notes'' (1897), vol. 1
p. 433
/ref> Gate of Honour Caius Court

On 21 January 1688/89, Green married at

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Susan Flack of Linton. In 1700, Green gained the important university chair of Regius Professor of Physic, which he held for more than forty years until his death on 1 April 1741. The foundation of the Regius chair provided the holder with a house in Cambridge, which Green sold. A medical history has noted that in his role as Regius professor Green did "little if any teaching". There were only three holders of the chair between 1700 and 1817, Green (1700–1741), Russell Plumptre (1741–1793), and Isaac Pennington (1793–1817), and the

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noted that their long duration in post "speaks well for their professional treatment of themselves". Green's

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is in the Hall of Caius' College, described as " Hogarth style".

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dedicated his ''The first Lecture of a Course of Botany, being an Introduction to the rest'' (1729) to Green.George Cornelius Gorham, ''Memoirs of John Martyn ... and of Thomas Martyn ... professors of botany in the University of Cambridge'' (1830)
p. 37
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Green, Christopher 1652 births 1741 deaths Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge Fellows of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge 17th-century English medical doctors British medical academics Regius Professors of Physic (Cambridge) 18th-century English medical doctors