Charles Scarborough

Sir Charles Scarborough, also spelled Scarburgh, was an English physician and mathematician, born in St Martin's-in-the-Fields, Westminster, on 29 December 1615 and dying in London on 26 February 1694. He was educated at St Paul's School, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and Merton College, Oxford, where he took his medical degree in 1646 and became a student and close friend of William Harvey. He tutored Christopher Wren, who was for a time his assistant. After the Restoration he was physician to Charles II, who knighted him in 1669, and later to James II and to William and Mary, and he sat in Parliament for Camelford from 1685 to 1687. An original fellow of the Royal Society, he wrote an anatomy textbook, Syllabus Musculorum, and a translation with commentary of the first six books of Euclid's Elements, published in 1705.