(c. 1564 – c. 1628)[1] was an English physician, now remembered for his involvement in Dr. Bonham's Case, of legal rather than medical significance.
Bonham took the side of the surgeons, then a separate profession, who in 1605 petitioned parliament, unsuccessfully, for full rights as doctors.
Finding himself in Newgate Prison for contempt of the college, he was freed by his lawyer under habeas corpus.
Coke's decision outraged the king and some leading lawyers, and continued to resonate for two centuries.
[1] Bonham left books and papers to his servant, Edward Poeton, by whom they were edited and published as The Chyrurgians Closet, or Antidotarie Chyrurgicall, London 1630.