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William Harvey
1578-1657

      William Harvey was born on April 1, 1578, at Folkestone, on the southern coast of Kent.

He was the eldest of nine children; of the rest little more is known, than that several of the brothers were among the most eminent merchants in the city of London during the reigns of the two first Stuarts. His father, Thomas Harvey, followed no profession.

He married Joanna Falke, at the age of twenty, and lived upon his own estate at Folkestone. This property devolved by inheritance upon his eldest son; and the greater part of it was eventually bequeathed by him to the college at which he was educated.

      At ten years of age he commenced his studies at the grammar school in Canterbury; and upon May 31, 1593, soon after the completion of