Roger Bosworth Explained

Roger Bosworth also Robert (ca. 16071660) was an English physician and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1659 to 1660.

Bosworth was from a lesser gentry family of Woolhope, Herefordshire. He studied medicine at Brasenose College, Oxford and was made Doctor Regio Beneficio on 31 January 1643 and created D.Med. on 4 March. 1643.[1] He practiced medicine in Hereford.

In 1659, Bosworth was elected Member of Parliament for Hereford in the Third Protectorate Parliament.[2] He was re-elected MP for Hereford in April 1660 for the Convention Parliament.[2]

Notes and References

  1. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=117047 'Alumni Oxonienses, 1500-1714: Bludworth-Brakell', Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714: Abannan-Kyte (1891), pp. 142-170.Date accessed: 12 July 2011
  2. Web site: BOSWORTH, Roger (c.1607-60), of Hereford. History of Parliament Online . 2024-02-06 . www.historyofparliamentonline.org.