Robert WORGER

1694 - 1726  (~ 32 years)

• Name	Robert WORGER
  Christened	28 Jan 1694	Hinxhill, Kent, England
  Gender	Male
  Died	15 Oct 1726	Bridge, Kent, England
  Person ID	I10544	Young Kent Ancestors
  Last Modified	20 Aug 2021

  
  

  Father	Robert WORGER,   b. Abt 1658,   d. Apr 1713, Hinxhill, Kent, England  (Age ~ 55 years)
  Mother	Judith SUTTON,   c. 11 Apr 1665, Brabourne, Kent, England ,   d. 21 Mar 1723, Hinxhill, Kent, England  (Age ~ 57 years)
  Married	3 Oct 1683	Hinxhill, Kent, England
  Family ID	F1518	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Sarah,   bur. 6 Dec 1744, Hinxhill, Kent, England
  Married	Abt 1720
  Children	1. John ^ WORGER,   c. 18 Jul 1723, Hinxhill, Kent, England ,   bur. 3 Jan 1723/1724, Hinxhill, Kent, England  (Age ~ 0 years)   2. Stephen WORGER,   c. 16 Sep 1726, Hinxhill, Kent, England
  Last Modified	20 Mar 2022
  Family ID	F3222	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Christopher Packe (1686–1749) was a physician and geologist who produced the first geological map of Southern England — his 1743 work A New Philosophico-chorographical Chart of East Kent. Packe was probably the son of Christopher Packe the chemist, was born at St. Albans, Hertfordshire, on 6 March 1686. He was admitted to Merchant Taylors' School on 11 September 1695. He was created M.D. at Cambridge in 1717, and was admitted a candidate of the College of Physicians on 25 June 1723. At the request of Robert Romney, the then vicar, he gave an organ to St. Peter's Church, St. Albans, which was opened on 16 January 1726. About 1726 Packe settled at Canterbury, where he practiced with much reputation for nearly a quarter of a century. He died on 15 November 1749, and was buried in St. Mary Magdalene, Canterbury. Packe married on 30 July 1726, at Canterbury Cathedral, Mary Randolph of the Precincts, Canterbury. His son Christopher graduated M.B. in 1751 as a member of Peterhouse, Cambridge, practised as a physician at Canterbury, and published An Explanation of ... Boerhaave's Aphorisms . . . of Phthisis Pulmonalis, 1754. He died on 21 October 1800, aged 72, and was buried by the side of his father. Packe had a heated controversy with Dr. John Gray of Canterbury respecting the treatment of Robert Worger of Hinxhill, Kent, who died of concussion of the brain, caused by a fall from his horse. The relatives, not satisfied with Packe's treatment, called in Gray and two surgeons, who, Packe alleged in letters in the "Canterbury News-Letter" of 8 and 15 October 1726, killed the patient by excessive bleeding and trepanning. He further defended himself in "A Reply to Dr. Gray's three Answers to a written Paper, entitled Mr. Worger's Case", 4to, Canterbury, 1727. Source: The Dictionary of National Biography. Download of paper available at: https://books.google.ca/books?id=2aIOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA34&lpg=PA34&dq=worger+gray+%22christopher+packe%22&source=bl&ots=qrp9kRcOGd&sig=qecrajxCidrI_7s4PETMu5r2-2w&hl=en&sa=X&ei=BTiiVPyFJo6nyASE7IKgAw&ved=0CC4Q6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=worger%20gray%20%22christopher%20packe%22&f=false ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Testimony of Michael Stoddard of Ash, Grocer had overheard John Worger, brother of the deceased (12 Apr 1726), said that the deceased had been frequently taken with a giddiness and swimming in his head and that he was not well that very morning that he came out to the horse race; and that there was another brother of the late Mr. Worger who "drop'd down in the Field at Roll, without any manifest cause, as he was leading the horse along; that the Roll ran upon him, and that when he, [John Worger] came up to him from no great distance in the same field, he found him stone dead. Michael Stoddard further declased that the said brother of the late Mr. Worger, at the time and place above said, declared that the mother of the late Mr. Worger [Judith need Sutton] died of the 'Dead Palsy' [paralysis est morbus apoplex congener, the Palsy is a Distemper near of kin to the Apoplexy] and that this Distemper whatever it was, he thought * ran in the blood of them and that he did believe that his brother, the late Mr. Worger, did not dye of the fall from his horse, but that he was taken with "such a Fit at the time of his fall", by reason that upon search made by the doctors, no hurt or damage appeared upon him by the fall. Sworn Nov. 15, 1726, before Humphry Pudner, Jurat. There are two or three other persons at Bridge who confirm the Brother's declaration about the instances of the Roll and the Dead Palsy... * Although a relapse was to be dreaded; for a brother of his was killed by the return of the Apoplexy; as also their father, and another brother were in like manner killed by the Apoplexy. apoplexy Sudden impairment of neurological function, especially that resulting from a cerebral hemorrhage; a stroke. A sudden effusion of blood into an organ or tissue. A fit of extreme anger or rage (OED 1386). palsy A disease of the nervous system characterized by impairment or suspension of muscular action or sensation, or paralysis. A tremor is common. It is part of many ailments where paralysis and tremor are symptoms such as cerebral, creeping, Saturday night, scrivener's, shaking, Bell's palsy, dead palsy, etc. (OED 1250).