Dr Samuel CHASE ⁴

  Notes:

Samuel was a surgeon in Luton, as was his father and two youger brothers. He achieved some recognition as a result of his use of inoculation to prevent smallpox in 1787, prior to the discovery of cowpox. He died two years later at the relatively early age of 44, leaving three young children from his second marriage to be brought up by their mother Elizabeth (qv) and her sisters in Luton and Northampton.

His eldest daughter Elizabeth married Hewitt Fysh, a draper in London; their son Frederick was ordained in the Anglican Church but did not have a living. Samuel's younger daughter Harriet married James Scholefield, Regius Professor of Greek at Cambridge University and Canon of Ely Cathedral. They had one son James Scholefield, who with neat symmetry was also ordained in the Anglican Church and did not have a living. Samuel's only son was also named Samuel (qv).

PCC: Samuel Chase PROB11/1184 dated 23-10-1789

Additional sources:
Gentleman's Magazine April 1788 Vol 58 Part 1 283-284.
C H Chase et al. Chase family history - unpublished compilation.

Samuel married Ann SAMMS on 5 Jan 1773 in St Leonard, Old Warden, Bedfordshire.^{1 2} (Ann SAMMS was christened on 26 Dec 1750 in St Mary, Luton, Bedfordshire ⁹ and died before 1785 ¹⁰.)

Samuel next married Elizabeth Ann NEALE, daughter of John NEALE and Henrietta WHATELY, on 19 Apr 1785 in All Saints, Northampton.³ (Elizabeth Ann NEALE was christened on 1 Oct 1751 in St Katherine Creechurch, London,¹¹ died on 14 Mar 1798 in Luton, Bedfordshire ¹² and was buried on 18 Mar 1798 in Baptist Burial Ground, Luton, Bedfordshire ¹³.)