# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-coakley-lettsom
# Generated: 2026-08-14T17:15:59.686Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-coakley-lettsom"
name: "John Coakley Lettsom"
slug: "john-coakley-lettsom"
description: "John Coakley Lettsom FRS was a British physician and philanthropist born on Little Jost Van Dyke in the British Virgin Islands in a Quaker settlement. The son of a West Indian planter and an Irish mother, he grew up to be an abolitionist. He founded the Medical Society of London in 1773, convinced that a combined membership of physicians, surgeons and apothecaries would prove productive. As the oldest such in the United Kingdom, it is housed in London's medical community at Lettsome House, Chandos Street, near Cavendish Square. Lettsom was its mainstay, as founder, president and benefactor."
tagline: "British Virgin Islands born English physician and scientist (1744–1815)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Johncoakleylettsome.jpeg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1744"
deathDate: "1815"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41
  momentum:             8.074942791762012
  historical:           3.942153333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%83%D9%88%D9%83%D9%84%D9%8A_%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%85"
    title: "جون كوكلي ليتسوم"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Lettsome"
    title: "John C. Lettsome"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Coakley_Lettsom"
    title: "John Coakley Lettsom"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Coakley_Lettsome"
    title: "John Coakley Lettsome"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6224512"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump