William Perfect

Biography:

Perfect was a British physician obstetrician early psychiatrist Freemason and poet. He was born in Oxfordshire England the son of a clergyman in Kent. In 1749 Perfect apprenticed under William Everred a London surgeon for seven years and attended lectures by Colin MacKenzie a Scottish obstetrician. He opened his obstetric practice in Kent in 1756 and he obtained his Medicinae Doctor from St. Andrews University in 1783.