NicholsJ. Literary anecdotes of the eighteenth century1812–1815; Vol. 3, London: Nichols, Son and Bentley, pp. 162–162.
2.
Combe registered an apprentice with the Society of Apothecaries in 1775. The Henry Coombe/Combe who was Master of the Apothecaries in 1863 may have been a relation.
3.
Macdonald G. Catalogue of Greek coins in the Hunterian collection. Glasgow: 1899–1905, p. xvi.
4.
PettigrewTJ. Medical portrait gallery1840; Vol. 2, London: Fisher Son & Co., pp. 9–9.
Society of Antiquaries, Minute Book xii, 22 November 1770.
9.
Letter Combe to Lettsom 7 December 1785, Ms 5370/19, London Wellcome Library.
10.
Ibid; 23 October 1787, Ms 5370/20, London Wellcome Library.
11.
Lawrence C and Macdonald F (eds) Sambrook Court. The letters of J.C. Lettsom at the Medical Society of London. London: Wellcome Trust 2003, p.155.
12.
Ibid.
13.
British Lying-In Hospital, Governors’ Minute Book 1784–1789, Ms H14/BLI/A2/002, London Metropolitan Archives.
14.
Thornton W. The new complete and universal history, description and survey of the cities of London and Westminster, the borough of Southwark and Parts adjacent. London: Alex Hogg, 1774, p. 463.
15.
Letter Combe to Lettsom 9 July 1789, Ms 5370/21, London Wellcome Library.
16.
BLIH Minute Book op cit, 2 April 1789.
17.
Ibid, 16 February, 13 April 1810, Ms H14/BLI/A2/004.
18.
Field W. Memoirs of the Rev Samuel Parr. London: 1828, p.332.
19.
Nichols, Literary Anecdotes op cit, p.163.
20.
Draft letter Banks to Combe asking which ships imported Indian Gum Arabic, MM/6/34, and ‘Dr Combe’s List’ of drugs, MM/6/69, Royal Society Archives.
21.
Garlick K and Macintyre A (eds). The diary of Joseph Farington. Vol 3. Yale University Press: 1979, p.801.
22.
Minutes of Council, vol viii, 1797, ff.102,148,203,206, Royal Society Archives. Rumford medals (gold and silver) were awarded biennially from 1800. The design changed in 1863.
23.
Mrs Combe’s application to the Royal Literary Fund, Ms LOAN96/RLFI/1350/3, British Library.
