Robert James Nicholl Streeten


Robert James Nicholl Streeten was a British physician and medical editor and secretary of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association.
The eldest of eight children of John Mitchell Streeten and Maria Streeten, Robert J. N. Streeten was educated at home until he matriculated at the University of Edinburgh in 1820. After studying there until 1822, Robert Streeten studied in Paris in 1822–1823 and returned in 1823 to Edinburgh, graduating in 1824 M.D. Edin. with doctoral thesis De delirio tremente. At Edinburgh he became clinical clerk to the physician and botanist Robert Graham. Soon after taking his degree, Streeten was appointed a physician to the Worcester Royal Infirmary and was soon elected a member of "Physicians to the Dispensary". In 1836 he became a member of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh. In 1846 he became a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London.
Streeten was the editor-in-chief of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Journal from 1844 until his death in 1849.
In Worcestershire on 16 November 1829, Robert Streeten married Emily Sherwood, a daughter of the author Mary Martha Sherwood. With her mother at her bedside, Emily Sherwood Streeten died on 8 October 1833.

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