Edward Norris (physician)

He was the fifth son of Thomas Norris (c. 1618–1686) of Speke, Lancashire, and his wife, Katherine (born 1632), daughter of Sir Henry Garway (Garraway).

He practised medicine at Chester; his scientific reputation is attested by the fact that he was a Fellow of the Royal Society as early 1698[5] In 1699, he was chosen by the new East India Company to accompany his brother, Sir William Norris, as secretary of his embassy to the Mogul Emperor.

[2] After an interval of mental or physical illness caused by the hardships of the journey, Norris resumed the profession of medicine at Utkinton, Cheshire, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1716.

[5] He is there commemorated:[6] Under this tomb lies interred Eᴅᴡᴀʀᴅ Nᴏʀʀɪs, M.D., of Speek, who departed this life 22 July 1726, in the      year of his age.

In 1705, he married Ann (1675/6–1729), daughter of William Cleveland of Liverpool, by whom he left one son, with whose death, some time before 1736, the family of the Norrises of Speke in the male line became extinct.