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AN interesting note on these degrees, by Dr. Cecil Wall, appears in the “Brompton Hospital Reports”, vol. 5, 1936. The power to grant such doctorates in any faculty was given to the Archbishop of Canterbury in 1534 through the Act of Supremacy and Succession. A number of degrees in medicine and science, apart from other faculties, have thus been conferred. The Lambeth doctorates were usually conferred for eminent service on those who were unable to conform with the university regulations for internal degrees. Among the men of science who received such degrees on the dates mentioned were Robert Hooke, physicist and secretary of the Royal Society (1691), John Woodward, geologist (1695), and Peter Dent, botanist (1678).
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Lambeth Degrees. Nature 139, 441 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139441c0
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