Sir Clifton Wintringham, 1st Baronet (bapt.
[2] He was the eldest son of physician Clifton Wintringham senior, and was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge.
He had a distinguished medical career, being elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1742, and becoming joint military physician to the forces, with John Pringle, in 1756.
[2][3] Joseph Robertson, a friend, edited Wintringham's De morbis quibusdam commentarii (1782), and dedicated to him An Essay on Punctuation.
[4][5] A memorial to Wintringham, by Thomas Banks, was erected in Westminster Abbey, marking the high standing with which he had been seen during life.