John Colbatch (apothecary)

Sir John Colbatch (baptised 1666 – 1729) was an English apothecary and physician.[1] Beginning as an apprentice, rising through freeman to master apothecary in the Worcester Mercer's Company, he went to London in the early 1690s.[2]

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