Author: Nott, John
Biography:
NOTT, John (1751-1825: ODNB) pseudonym Joannes Secundus Nicolaius
John Nott, physician, classicist, and traveller, was born in Worcester. His father Samuel Nott had been a member of the household of George III; the name of his mother is not reliably recorded. He was a fine classicist; he began translating his favourite authors while he was still at school. Nott studied medicine in Birmingham, London, and Paris, and served as medical attendant to an invalid on the Continent and then as surgeon on an East India Company voyage to China. During his travels he learnt Persian and prepared his translation of Hafiz. He was licensed by the Royal College of Physicians in 1789 and accompanied Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire (q.v.) and her sister on their tour of the Continent. In 1793 he established a practice at the Hotwells in Bristol. He never married. He died at Clifton and is buried there. (ODNB 18 May 2020; ancestry.com 18 May 2020)