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Autograph Letter Signed, to Mr. Robins, Warwick Street, making arrangements to meet. 1 page 7 x 4 inches, in good condition, with the address leaf. Saturday morning, six oclock [1819]. Sir William Knighton, first baronet (1776–1836), courtier and physician, was Assistant Surgeon at the Royal Naval Hospital Plymouth, and then commenced private practice, initially in Devonport, in London from 1803 then briefly Edinburgh, then in London again from 1806. He was Medical Officer to the Embassy to Spain in 1809. In September 1822 Knighton gave up his lucrative medical practice to devote himself fully to the service of King George IV, having been officially appointed keeper of the privy purse in succession to Sir Benjamin Bloomfield. He attended the King in his last illness.