Edward Lapworth (1574–1636) was an English physician and Latin poet, and the first Sedleian reader at the University of Oxford.
[1] Lapworth was moderator in vesperiis in medicine in 1605 and 1611, and respondent in natural philosophy on James I's visit to Oxford in 1605.
[1] In 1618 Lapworth was designated first Sedleian reader in natural philosophy under the will of the founder, William Sedley, even though the bequest did not take effect till 1621; and on 9 August 1619 was appointed Linacre physic lecturer.
[1] Lapworth was a scholarly man who wrote occasional verse, and was praised by John Davies of Hereford.
He contributed to Joshua Sylvester's Du Bartas, his Devine Weekes and Workes, 1605, and the treatise of Edward Jorden on Naturall Bathes and Minerall Waters.
He had a son, Michael, who matriculated at Magdalen College in 1621, aged 17; and a daughter, Anne, who was his heiress, and mother of William Joyner.