Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Caldwall, Richard
CALDWALL, RICHARD, M.D. (1505?–1584), physician, was born in Staffordshire about 1505 (Tables of Surgerie). He was educated at Brasenose, graduated as B.A. in 1533 (Wood, Fasti (Bliss), i. 95), and became a fellow, but afterwards moved to Christ Church and thence graduated M.D. at Oxford in 1554. He was admitted a fellow of the College of Physicians in 1559, was made a censor the same day, and was elected president in 1570. With Lord Lumley he founded a surgery lecture in the college. In 1572 he was infirm, and was excused from attendance at its meetings by the college. He wrote several works, but only one was published, and that after his death, by E. Caldwall. It is a translation of some ‘Tables of Surgerie’ by Horatius Morus, a Florentine physician. Caldwall died in 1584, and was buried in St. Benet's, Paul's Wharf. Camden describes his tomb—an elaborate work in later renaissance style, with many panels and borders, and adorned with surgical instruments.
[Munk's Coll. of Phys. 1878, i. 60; Wood's Athenæ (Bliss), i. 510; Tables of Surgerie, 1585; Camden's Annals, 1627.]