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Meyer Löw Schomberg

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99: 83:, making a failed attempt to sabotage Sarmento's election to the Royal Society in 1729 by blackening his name, and in 1738 publicly denounced Sarmento's prescription of an opiate to Benjamin Mendes da Costa, one of Schomberg's former patients, in Janneway's Coffee House. Sarmento complained of the latter event to the censors of the Royal College of Physicians, but their fine of £4 against Schomberg for breaching their moral statutes only led Meyer embarking on a feud against the College via his son 78:
By 1740 his professional income was said to be 4000 guineas a year, having established a successful practice (Sir William Browne attributed this to his offers of friendship and hospitality to young surgeons). He was, however, greatly envious of his contemporary,
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R. D. Barnett, ‘Dr Jacob de Castro Sarmento and Sephardim in medical practice in 18th-century London’, Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England, 27 (1978–80), 84–114 · E. Carmoly, Histoires des médecins juifs anciens et modernes
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His father, Löw Schomberg, was a physician in Meyer's birthplace and Meyer (probably Löw's eldest son) followed his father's trade, studying classics, then (like his brothers, Salomon, Hertz, and Gerson) medicine, at the University of
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admitted him as a licentiate on 19 March 1722 (giving his word and his bond, he was allowed to put off paying the £20 fee for that honour), on 12 January 1726 he became a
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A. Sakula, ‘The doctors Schomberg and the Royal College of Physicians: an eighteenth-century shemozzle’, Journal of Medical Biography, 2 (1994), 113–19
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E. R. Samuel, ‘Dr Meyer Schomberg's attack on the Jews of London, 1746’, Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England, 20 (1959–61), 83–111
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P. Blachais, ‘L'incroyable histoire des Schombourgs, famille juive d'Alsace’, Bulletin du Cercle Généalogique d'Alsace (1988), 540–45
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E. R. Samuel, ‘Anglo-Jewish notaries and scriveners’, Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England, 17 (1951–52), 113–59
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M. Schomberg, ‘Emunat omen’, trans. H. Levy, Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England, 20 (1959–61), 101–11
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Henry Schomberg, purchased an army commission, reached the rank of lieutenant-colonel, left 1s. in his father's will
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if that would aid them in the liberal professions for which he had had them educated.
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Emigrants from the Holy Roman Empire to the Kingdom of Great Britain
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C. Roth, The Great Synagogue, London, 1690–1940 (1950)
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On his death, Meyer was buried in Hackney churchyard.
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Schomberg had at least seven sons and one daughter:
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(1878) 142:Joel, physician, practising in Metz and 1240:English people of German-Jewish descent 39:degree in 1710, Meyer had practises in 1205:18th-century Jewish German physicians 7: 1225:Converts to Anglicanism from Judaism 1195:18th-century English medical doctors 566:The Constitutions of the Free-Masons 709:Sir Thomas Prendergast, 2nd Baronet 598:Worshipful Society of Apothecaries 284:Active 1717–1813, united with the 14: 588:Society of Antiquaries of London 396:Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne 163:Rebecca (1719–1742), died young. 994:Sir Arthur Acheson, 5th Baronet 222:University of Giessen registers 1200:18th-century German physicians 999:Sir Robert Lawley, 4th Baronet 552:Antient Grand Lodge of England 286:Ancient Grand Lodge of England 276:Premier Grand Lodge of England 69:Premier Grand Lodge of England 1: 557:United Grand Lodge of England 290:United Grand Lodge of England 55:to look after the poor. The 1230:Fellows of the Royal Society 894:Sir Robert Rich, 4th Baronet 603:Spalding Gentlemen's Society 16:German physician (1690–1761) 653:Unlawful Societies Act 1799 593:Royal College of Physicians 321:John Theophilus Desaguliers 152:(1720–1779), public notary 61:fellow of the Royal Society 57:Royal College of Physicians 1266: 1024:Frederick, Prince of Wales 288:(1751–1813) to create the 1190:18th-century English Jews 1019:Walter Calverley-Blackett 282: 578:Freemasons' Hall, London 326:George Payne (1720–1721) 81:Jacob de Castro Sarmento 1139:Nathan Mayer Rothschild 1064:Robert Boyle-Walsingham 522:George, Prince of Wales 102:Balmes House (north of 1069:Sir Robert de Cornwall 547:History of Freemasonry 111: 613:English Enlightenment 101: 1054:Marquess of Hastings 819:Lord James Cavendish 769:Earl of Macclesfield 689:Earl of Chesterfield 474:Marquis of Carnarvon 426:Marquis of Carnarvon 1109:Meyer Löw Schomberg 979:Marquess of Lothian 964:Duke of Marlborough 949:Duke of Queensberry 93:Anglican Christians 20:Meyer Löw Schomberg 1059:James Moore Smythe 989:Earl of Winchilsea 939:Earl of Burlington 919:Viscount Townshend 874:John Baptist Grano 829:William Richardson 799:Richard Manningham 648:Foundling Hospital 623:Walpole ministries 573:Freemasons' Tavern 516:Duke of Cumberland 510:Duke of Manchester 241:Oxford DNB article 112: 35:. 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Index

Giessen
MD
Schweinsberg
Blankenstein
Metz
Great Synagogue
Royal College of Physicians
fellow of the Royal Society
freemasons
Premier Grand Lodge of England
grand steward
Jacob de Castro Sarmento
Isaac
deism
Anglican Christians

Hoxton
Isaac

Ralph or Raphael

Thann
Moses

Solomon

Alexander
William Munk
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