John Arbuthnot

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John Arbuthnot was an 18th-century Scottish physician, mathematician, and satirist closely associated with Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope.

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John Arbuthnot canonical 12
Arbuthnot 4

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Predicate Object
instanceOf classical scholar
essayist
human
mathematician
physician
satirist
translator
writer
closeFriend Alexander Pope
John Gay
Jonathan Swift
countryOfCitizenship Kingdom of Great Britain
dateOfBirth 1667-04-29
dateOfDeath 1735-02-27
educatedAt University of Aberdeen
University of Oxford
University of St Andrews
employer Queen Anne
ethnicGroup Scottish
familyName Arbuthnot
linked to: John Arbuthnot
fieldOfWork mathematics
medicine
probability
satire
genre essay
political satire
satire
givenName John
hasPart character John Bull
influenced Alexander Pope
Jonathan Swift
languageOfWorkOrName English
memberOf Royal Society
Scriblerus Club
linked to: The Scriblerus Club
movement Augustan literature
name John Arbuthnot
nativeLanguage Scots
notableAchievement one of the founders of the Scriblerus Club
notableFor creating the character John Bull as a national personification of England
notableIdea early use of statistical inference in demography
notableWork An Essay on the Usefulness of Mathematical Learning
Law is a Bottomless Pit
Of the Laws of Chance
Tables of Ancient Coins, Weights and Measures
The Art of Political Lying
The History of John Bull
occupation classical scholar
mathematician
physician
satirist
translator
writer
placeOfBirth Kincardineshire NERFINISHED
Scotland
placeOfDeath Kingdom of Great Britain
London
linked to: London, England
positionHeld physician-in-ordinary to Queen Anne
sexOrGender male

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The Scriblerus Club hasMember John Arbuthnot
John Arbuthnot Fisher middleName Arbuthnot
linked to: John Arbuthnot
John Arbuthnot Fisher middleName Arbuthnot
linked to: John Arbuthnot
Scriblerus Club hasMember John Arbuthnot
subject linked to: Lord Oxford
Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer patronOf John Arbuthnot
subject linked to: Lord Oxford
Miscellanies in Prose and Verse author John Arbuthnot
Martinus Scriblerus createdBy John Arbuthnot
Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot addressedTo John Arbuthnot
John Arbuthnot name John Arbuthnot
John Arbuthnot familyName Arbuthnot
linked to: John Arbuthnot
Mariot Arbuthnot familyName Arbuthnot
subject linked to: Admiral Mariot Arbuthnot
linked to: John Arbuthnot
court of Queen Anne significantPerson John Arbuthnot
John Bull createdBy John Arbuthnot