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DEE, ARTHUR, son of Rev. John Dee, Warden of Manchester College, the famous astrologer, and his second wife Jane, dau. of Bartholomew Fromond, East Cheam, Surrey ; b. 13 Jul 1579 ; adm. 3 May 1592 (The Private Diary of Dr John Dee, Camden Soc Pub xix, 40); studied probably both at Oxford and at Cambridge; settled in London with intention of practising medicine, but was cited before the College of Physicians as an unlicensed practitioner; became physician to the Tsar of Russia, remaining in Russia for about 14 years; subsequently a Physician in Ordinary to King Charles I; latterly practising medicine in Norwich; a student of hermetical philosophy and for many years a friend of Sir Thomas Browne ; author, Fasciculus Chemicus, published in Paris in 1631; m. Isabella, dau. of Edward Prestwych, Hulme, Lancs.; d. Sep 1651. DNB.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.