Author: Tweed, John
Biography:
TWEED, John (1754-1836: ancestry.co.uk)
He was born on 12 Nov. 1754 and baptised on 13 Dec. at St. Mary the Virgin, Bocking, Essex, the son of John Tweed (1712-62) and his second wife, Frances Bridge (1726-84), who had married at Wimbish, Essex, in 1753. Nothing is known of his early education until he was apprenticed to a surgeon and apothecary at Ipswich in 1770. Thereafter he returned to Bocking and practised as a surgeon. He married Bridget Rebecca Gullifer (1760-1819) on 28 Mar. 1780 at her parish of St. Mary, Witham, Essex. They went on to have at least ten children. He died on 1 Nov. 1836 at Bocking and was buried in St. Mary’s. In addition to The Redeemer (1791), which was printed at Bocking, he published a play, The Invasion; or, England’s Glory (1798), and a medical work, Popular Observations on Regimen and Diet (1820). (ancestry.co.uk 21 Feb. 2024; findmypast.co.uk 21 Feb. 2024; Watkins, 358; P. J. Wallis and R. V. Wallis, Eighteenth-Century Medics [1988], 609; N&Q 13 Oct. 1866, 291; Ipswich Journal 1 Apr. 1780, 12 Nov. 1836; Bath Chronicle 21 Jan. 1819; Chelmsford Chronicle 4 Nov. 1836) AA