used to indicate him when citing a botanical name. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1763 and became a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1770. Fothergill was the patron of Sydney Parkinson, the South Sea voyager, and of William Bartram, the American botanist in his southern travels of 1773–1776. A translation of the Bible, known as the Quaker Bible, made by Anthony Purver, was fashioned and printed at his expense. He founded Ackworth School, Pontefract, Yorkshire in 1779. John Fothergill died in London on 26 December 1780 aged 68, of urinary retention perhaps linked with prostate cancer.Fanny Burney, having earlier described him as "an upright, stern old man... an old prig," later recorded when she was his patient: "He really has been... amazingly civil and polite to me... as kind as he is skilful." His niece Betty Fothergill described him in her journal as "surely the first of men. With the becoming dignity of age he unites the cheerfulness and liberality of youth. He possesses the most virtues and the fewest failings of any man I know". See also Fothergill's sign Notes References Attribution Further reading contains information on John Fothergill, the author's father – See Chapter 5: Davidson, Luke, The kiss of life in the eighteenth century: the fate of an ambiguous kiss. 1712 births 1780 deaths 18th-century English medical doctors 18th-century Quakers People from Doncaster English Quakers Fellows of the Royal Society English botanists Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Medical School 18th-century British scientists Members of the American Philosophical Society