Robert Glynn

Robert Glynn, afterwards Clobery (5 August 1719 – 6 February 1800) was an English physician, known as a generous eccentric.

Glynn was the eldest and only surviving son of Robert Glynn of Brodes in Helland parish, near Bodmin, Cornwall, who married Lucy, daughter of John Clobery of Bradstone, Devon, was born at Brodes on 5 August and baptised at Helland Church on 16 September 1719. After some teaching from a curate named Whiston, he was placed on the foundation at Eton College. In 1737 he was elected scholar of King's College, Cambridge, where he took the degrees of B.A. 1741, M.A. 1745, and M.D. 1752, and became a Fellow. His medical tutor at Cambridge was the elder William Heberden of St John's College. Glynn himself announced in March 1751 a course of lectures at King's College on the medical institutes, and next year gave a second course on anatomy. For a short time he practised at Richmond, Surrey, but soon returned to Cambridge, and never again left the university.

On 5 April 1762 he was admitted a candidate, and on 28 March 1763 became a fellow, of the College of Physicians at London. William Pitt the Younger, whom he had attended in the autumn of 1773, offered him in 1793 the professorial chair of medicine at Cambridge, which Glynn refused. He was at the close of his life the acknowledged local head of his profession, and his medical services were in great repute at Ely, where he attended every week.

Late in life Glynn inherited a considerable property from a maternal uncle, and with it took the name of Clobery. He died at his rooms in King's College, Cambridge, on 6 February 1800, and, according to his own direction, was buried in the vault of the college chapel by torchlight, between the hours of ten and eleven at night on 13 February, in the presence of members of the college only. A tablet to his memory was placed in King's College Chapel, in a small oratory on the right hand after entering its south door.

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