Peirce died in 1765. He has a memorial plaque in St Swithin's Church, Walcot where he is interred along with the painter of the picture, William Hoare.
Mr Jeremiah Peirce
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Born in1696, Peirce became a Governor
of the hospital and remained senior surgeon there until 1761. Little is known of this man’s background or how he
came to be elected to the original committee at a relatively early age. By 1738, Peirce was well established as a surgeon in Bath. A year before he had reported the
case of a patient with a tumour of the knee whose leg he had amputated. This was published by the Royal
Society of which Peirce was a fellow. He owned a tiny villa on the end of Lansdown, designed by John Wood and called Lilliput Castle.
It has since been extensively enlarged and called Battlefields.
Peirce died in 1765. He has a memorial plaque in St Swithin's Church, Walcot where he is interred along with the painter of the picture, William Hoare. |
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