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Joseph Clutton, C.1695-1743: a Georgian Apothecary religious intolerance and outright persecution; at the ARTICLE time Joseph Clutton was starting his career the sect was only around 50 years old, and it was no small thing to Joseph Clutton, c.1695-1743: A Georgian espouse its name and teachings. apothecary As soon as his apprenticeship was concluded and he was ‘freed’ Joseph married Mary (c.1696-1754), the Christopher J. Duffi n daughter of Richard Morris and his wife Hester from Rugeley, a historic market town in Staff ordshire. Th e Abstract wedding took place on 4 May 1725 in Staff ord itself.2 Joseph Clutton (c.1695-1743) was a Georgian apothe- Richard Morris was also a Quaker and an apothecary, cary and businessman who produced the Oglander ma- and it seems likely that he was a relative of Benjamin teria medica cabinet. A committed Quaker, he ventured Morris. Indeed, Richard seems to have been very de- into print on two occasions. Th e fi rst (1729) concerned vout and well educated, having written a religious tract a proprietary febrifugal tincture. Th e second (1736) ex- around 1742, although it was not published until 1798.3 amined the infamous antimonial ‘Pill and Drop’ pro- Many indentures had restrictions imposed on the ap- moted by the quack Joshua Ward (1685-1761). Th is prentice, often including an injunction against mar- drew Clutton into a protracted war of words with Ward riage – perhaps this accounts for Joseph’s matrimonial and his brother in the Grub Street Journal. Clutton was haste on becoming a free man. also a keen botanist. Following his death, his wife Mary Clutton’s wife was also clearly both devout and well and then his son Morris continued the business, which educated; she wrote a poem entitled A Prospect of Death, was eventually fully owned by Joseph’s former appren- a Pindarick Essay (i.e. a poem with set meter and rhyme), tice, Th omas Corbyn (1711-1791). published before they were married, in 1721.4 Th e next we see of Joseph Clutton is some fi fteen Introduction years later as, by 1732, he appears to be in partnership Background information on Joseph Clutton and details with his former Master in Holborn in London. Th ey of his early life are relatively sparse. He was born around are listed as joint owners of a property on the north side 1695 at Pensax, a small hamlet in northwest Worcester- of Holborn, as well as owning property in the block be- shire, several miles south west of Kidderminster.1 His par- tween Warwick Court and Brownlow Street, both of ents were John and Mary Clutton. In 1709 Joseph was which branch off what is now the western end of High apprenticed as an apothecary to Benjamin Morris (dates Holborn. I have been unable to fi nd the exact premises unknown), formerly of Hereford. Th e apprenticeship from which they traded, but it is clear from a later lasted eight years, and would have required a formal, le- (1749) document that their location was known at the gally binding indentureship, signed by a Justice of the time as ‘Th e Bell and Dragon’ (Figure 1).5 Peace. Normal practice meant that a sum of money, known as a premium or consideration, was paid by the parents to the apothecary, who undertook to train the ap- prentice, as well as to clothe, feed and lodge him. Th e eight year period was necessary in order to satisfy the Stat- ute of Labourers and Apprentices of 1563, which required that those who wished to practise a craft or ‘mystery’ com- plete an apprenticeship of at least seven years duration. Benjamin Morris was a Quaker convert. Joseph Clutton was also a Quaker, but it is not clear whether he came from a Quaker family or converted. Quaker- ism (more formally, the Religious Society of Friends) had its roots in the era of the English Civil War (1641- 1652); the unrest and depredations of these times led to the emergence of numerous dissenting religious groups. George Fox (1624-1691), founder of the group, was im- prisoned in Worcester Castle in 1673 for fourteen months because he refused to swear the oath of alle- giance and supremacy (recognising the Monarch as the Figure 1. Receipt given by Morris Clutton, Joseph’s Clut- Supreme Governor of the Church of England) and was ton’s son, and Th omas Corbyn for goods supplied from their therefore guilty of treason. Th e Quaker Church in the trading premises at ‘Th e Bell and Dragon’, Holborn, Lon- Worcester area fl ourished and grew in spite of the air of don. (Source: Wellcome Library, London, MS. 5436/12) PHARMACEUTICAL HISTORIAN · 2018 · Volume 48/4 85 No likeness exists of Joseph Clutton, so far as I am velopment and expansion during the 1700s, rapidly be- aware, but his signature is preserved in a document con- coming established as a health resort and fashionable cerned with securing premises for a laboratory to be as- meeting place for members of high society. Th is saw a sociated with his business (Figure 2).6 Th e land on signifi cant increase in numbers both of residents and which the laboratory was built was originally leased by visitors to the city. In 1742, the Bath General Infi rma- William Vernon, a distiller, to Wendover Jay and Rich- ry was opened (the building is now the Royal National ard Gowland, druggists of Holborn (8 April 1726). Th e Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases) for ‘the Cure and piece of land, measuring 40 feet by 51 feet (12.20m x Maintenance ... of poor strangers’ – in other words, 15.55m), was ‘scituate on the north side of the said Wil- non-residents. Joseph Clutton responded to the appeal liam Vernon’s dwelling house in Dorrington Street’, for donations to the tune of fi ve guineas.11 and was made available ‘for the term of sixty one years Clutton was also involved with St George’s Hospital for and in consideration of the yearly rent of fi ve pounds in London. Th is began life in 1716 as the Westminster clear of all taxes’ so they could build a ‘Counting House Public Infi rmary in Petty France, but the need for in- and an Elaboratory ... for the making of chemical prep- creased space stimulated several moves of premises. arations’.7 Lanesborough House at Hyde Park Corner (Figure 3) Jay then assigned his share in the laboratory and (now the luxury Lanesborough Hotel), then in open other buildings on the site on 23 November 1726 to countryside, was chosen in 1732 and the new St Gowland, who in turn assigned them to Joseph Clut- George’s Hospital occupied three fl oors, caring for 30 ton on 24 March 1730.8 Th e area was developed, and patients (drawn from ‘the honest and laborious poor’) houses were built in Dorrington Street in 1719-1720, in separate male and female wards.12 Inexorable growth as part of the Coldbath Estate in the area then known meant to say that by 1744 it had expanded to fi fteen as Coldbath Fields. Th is lay adjacent to the Cold Bath, wards catering for over 250 patients. Joseph Clutton a fenced spring in Coldbath Square, developed for me- was a Governor of the Hospital. dicinal cold bathing purposes.9 Figure 2. Signature and seal of Joseph Clutton on a doc- ument dated 19 March 1736. (Source: Wellcome Library, London, MS.5435/1/5) Quaker values and religious activity Historically, the Quakers count many successful busi- nessmen and scientists amongst their number, and their members characteristically had a strongly philanthrop- Figure 3. St George’s Hospital, Lanesborough House, ic outlook. Joseph Clutton embraced these ideals. As Hyde Park Corner. Engraving after William Wilkins. his business grew, he was able to take on a succession (Source: Wellcome Library, London) of young apprentices, all of whom seem themselves to have been Quakers – James Smith of Shropshire in 1717, Eldridge Beale shortly afterwards, and Th omas Henry Pickworth (c.1673-c.1738) was a religious Corbyn from Worcester in 1728. controversialist who was openly hostile to the Society Clutton was also a regular benefactor of various of Friends. He actually joined the Quakers in his youth Christian causes, many of which – despite the dissent- and was appointed to roles of responsibility in the ing origins of Quakerism – revealed in him a strong monthly meetings at Waddington in Lincolnshire.13 sense of ecumenism. For example, he is listed in 1746 Following a debate with the disenchanted Francis Bugg as having donated a guinea to the Society for Promot- (1640-1727) Pickworth began to espouse his highly ing Christian Knowledge (SPCK), an Anglican mission critical views and, following Bugg’s lead, began to pub- organisation established in 1698.10 lish anti-Quaker pamphlets and tracts. He attended the He also had philanthropic interests in medical yearly meetings in London where he sought to lodge his causes. Bath – the site of the famous Roman baths and protests and give infl ammatory addresses; he was gen- their therapeutic waters – underwent signifi cant rede- erally refused an audience. Amongst his publications 86 PHARMACEUTICAL HISTORIAN · 2018 · Volume 48/4 was the 1732 Narrative to the Bishop of Lichfi eld and eral years, and involving a signifi cantly large number of Coventry, outlining what he considered to be acknowl- cases to refi ne his design of a new medicine, he also edgements of gross errors in Quaker beliefs by the learned how to supplement his treatment with other, prominent Quakers, William Penn (1644-1718) and often more established therapies.
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