Henry Halford

He went to London in about 1792, and was initially told that he could not succeed for five years, and must support himself on £300 annually in private income.

He also served as physician to other members of the Royal Family, notably the Princess Amelia, youngest daughter of George III.

The College owes its removal from Warwick-lane to Pall-mall East in 1825 to Sir Henry Halford's exertions.

Halford was a fellow of the Royal and Antiquarian societies, and a trustee of Rugby School which he had attended; and, in virtue of his office as President of the College of Physicians, he was president of the National Vaccine Establishment, and a trustee of the British Museum.

He was known to his contemporaries as "The Prince and Lord Chesterfield of all medical practitioners", and less complimentarily as "the eel-backed baronet in consequence of his deep and oft-repeated bows."

[8][9] However, his widow Sarah née Farnham remained in possession of Wistow, and remarried the Earl of Denbigh.

He married Hester Smalley, the second daughter of a Leicester alderman, John Smalley (sometimes called Thomas or William in sources), by his wife Elizabeth Halford, second daughter of Sir Richard Halford, 5th Bart., of Wistow Hall, Leicestershire.

Dr James Vaughan and his wife Hester had at least six sons and an only daughter who married late in life.

His Oxford connexions, elegant attainments, and pleasing manners at once introduced him into good society, and he secured a position among the aristocracy by his marriage, on 31 March 1795, to the Hon.