_Dr. Richard Morton._--Perhaps the following brief particulars of this
celebrated physician may be acceptable to your correspondent M. A.
LOWER, Vol. v., p. 227. He was born in the county of Suffolk, educated
at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he became Chaplain of New College. He
was for some time chaplain, and probably tutor, to the Foley family in
Worcestershire; but after the Restoration took his degrees in medicine,
and became an eminent practitioner in London, dying at his residence in
Surrey in the year 1698. An engraved portrait of him, with the large
flowing wig of the period, now lies before me, with this inscription:
"Richardus Morton, M.D.
Colleg: Med: Lond: Soc."
I have not been able to discover whether this gentleman was related to
the Mortons of Severn Stoke, co. Worcester.