Samuel Crooke
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Samuel Crooke was a seventeenth-century cleric of the Church of England and a noted preacher. During the English Civil War he was a staunch supporter of the Parliamentary cause.
All Saints Church, Wrington-Samuel was vicar here for almost fifty years
Helkiah Crooke
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Helkiah Crooke was Court physician to King James I of England. He is best remembered for his textbook on anatomy, Mikrokosmographia, a Description of the Body of Man. He was the first qualified doctor
Samuel Crooke
…inherited his father's religious views. Two of his brothers achieved fame: Sir Thomas Crooke, 1st Baronet, as the founder of Baltimore, County Cork, and Helkiah Crooke as royal physician and author of one of the first textbooks on anatomy. Samuel's brother-in-law, Stephen Egerton, was another leading Puritan preacher…
Title page of Microcosmographia