Nathaniel Hulme

He was born in Hulme Thorpe, near Halifax, Yorkshire and served an apprenticeship with his brother, a medical practitioner in the district.

During a peacetime posting to Leith he attended medical classes at Edinburgh, graduating M.D.

[1] He moved to London, and when the General Dispensary for the Relief of the Poor was first opened, became its first physician.

In 1768 he was appointed physician to the City of London Lying-in Hospital, a post he held until 1793, and wrote Treatise on the Puerperal Fever based on his experience there.

He died on 28 March 1807 from the effects of falling from the roof of his house when checking the chimneys and was buried in the pensioners' burial-ground of the Charterhouse.