Matthew Lister (died 1657)

[1] Edward Wilmot (died 1786) reported that Lister had made some advances in medicine, and his recipes were widely used, where applicable without modification.

[5] Correspondence indicates that Lister's medical opinions were eagerly sought by landowners by letter and in person when he visited Yorkshire.

[6] Lister and John Finet were employed to take Lord Cranborne, the son of Sir Robert Cecil on a Grand Tour to France and Italy in 1610 and 1611.

Cranborne could not be persuaded to continue to Tuscany, and after a visit to Dudley Carleton and the Venice Carnival, the party returned via a journey on the Rhine, seeing Amsterdam, The Hague, Vlissingen, and sailing from Calais to England in April 1611.

[8] During the trip, Lister probably met Mark Belford, an English diplomat, who later bequeathed him an anatomy book by Andreas Vesalius.

They were in Antwerp in September 1614, with Bridget Parham (a daughter of Thomas Tresham), and considered going to Breda or staying with William Trumbull in Brussels.

[13][14][15] Lister and Leonard Welstead were trustees of Lady Pembroke, and had obtained Houghton from Sir Edward Conquest in 1615.

[16] John Chamberlain wrote in April 1617 that there was "a suspicion that the olde countesse of Pembroke is married to Doctor Lister that was with her at the Spa".