The History and Cure of Diseases. Wives and children He married twice. First to Elizabeth Martin in 1752, with whom he had one son Thomas (1754–1843), later Canon of Exeter, but she died in 1754. He remarried to Mary Wollaston, daughter of Francis Wollaston (1694–1774), and had a further eight children, of whom only two survived their father, one being William Heberden the Younger (1767–1845), who followed his father into medicine, and the other Mary (1763–1832) who married the Rev George Leonard Jenyns. References External links 1710 births 1801 deaths Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge 18th-century English medical doctors Fellows of the Royal Society People educated at St Saviour's Grammar School People from Windsor, Berkshire Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians