Sir James Stonhouse, 11th Baronet (1716–1795) was an English physician and Anglican cleric, known as a hospital founder and religious writer.
He was the eldest son of Richard and Caroline Stonhouse of Tubney near Abingdon, Berkshire, born there on 20 July 1716; his father died about 1725.
His medical teacher was Frank Nicholls; he attended the school at St Thomas's Hospital, and then went abroad, where he studied medicine at Paris, Lyons, Montpellier, and Marseilles.
[1] Stonhouse was deeply skeptical of religion,[2] however, soon after coming to Northampton he also made close friendships with Philip Doddridge and James Hervey, leading to a religious conversion.
[1] Stonhouse knew Hannah More and greatly influenced her thinking and development as a writer.
He died at Hotwells, Bristol, on 8 December 1795, and was buried in Dowry chapel (later the church of St. Andrew the Less) with his second wife.
[1] Stonhouse married, in May 1742, Anne, eldest daughter of John Neale of Allesley, Member of Parliament for Coventry, and a maid of honour to Queen Caroline of Anspach.
[1] Stonhouse's second wife was Sarah, only child and heiress of Thomas Ekins of Chester-on-the-Water, near Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, and Doddridge was her guardian.
She died of consumption at Hotwells, Bristol, on 10 December 1788, aged 55, leaving two sons and a daughter.