{{Short description|English physician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2020}} {{Use British English|date=September 2016}} '''Charles Feake''' (c.1716–1762) was an English physician and Fellow of the Royal Society.<ref name="RS">[http://royalsociety.org/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Persons&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=%28%28text%29%3D%27Feake%27%29 royalsociety.org, ''Feake; Charles (c 1716 - 1762)''.]</ref>

==Life== He was the son of Samuel Feake (died 1757) of Durrington Hall in Essex from 1720. He was born in Cossimbazar, West Bengal, where his father was governor of Fort William (1718 to 1723).<ref name="Venn">{{acad|FK732C|Feake, Charles}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=William Cooke Taylor|title=Ancient and Modern India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sm_71j9KYPcC&pg=PA558|year=1851|publisher=James Madden|page=558}}</ref><ref>[http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-118260-durrington-hall-sheering-essex britishlistedbuildings.co.uk, ''Durrington Hall, Sheering''.]</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=James Bettley|title=Essex: The Buildings of England|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z3FN4VL5lEwC&pg=PA901|year=2007|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=978-0-300-11614-4|page=901}}</ref> He was educated at Stoke Newington (Mr Stuckey), at Newcome's School for three years, and Caius College, Cambridge where he matriculated in 1732, later graduating later M.B. in 1738 and M.D. in 1743.<ref name="Venn"/><ref>{{cite book |author=Nicholas Hans|title=New Trends in Education in the 18th Century |year=1998|publisher=Routledge|isbn=0-415-17611-5|page=243}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Biographical History of Gonville and Caius College 1349-1897|date=1897–1901|url=https://archive.org/details/biographicalhist02vennuoft|accessdate=9 July 2013|publisher=CUP Archive|page=[https://archive.org/details/biographicalhist02vennuoft/page/36 36]|id=GGKEY:48YU87FG5WE}}</ref>

Feake was physician to Guy's Hospital, from 1745, when for the first time the hospital took on a third physician.<ref>Samuel Wilks, George Thomas Bettany, ''A Biographical History of Guy's Hospital'' (1892) p. 106; [https://archive.org/stream/biographicalhist00wilkuoft#page/106/mode/2up archive.org.]</ref> He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1745 and a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1748; and gave the Harveian Oration in 1749.<ref name="Venn"/>

Feake died on 2 August 1762.<ref name="RS"/> His library was sold in 1763.<ref>{{cite book|author=John Nichols|author-link=John Nichols (printer)|title=Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century;: Comprizing Biographical Memoirs of William Bowyer, Printer, F.S.A. and Many of His Learned Friends|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UEcJAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA650|year=1812|page=650}}</ref>

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==External links== * [http://www.worldcat.org/identities/np-feake,%20charles$d%201762 WorldCat page]

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