The page is about the physician and member of the Hellfire Club. For the industrialist see Benjamin E. Bates Dr. Benjamin Bates (c. 1736 ? May 12 1828) was a physician, art connoisseur, and a member of the Sir Francis Dashwood's Hellfire Club, The Monks of Medmenham. Details of Bates early life are sketchy. He was born around 1736,A commemorative tablet in the floor of the church in Little Missenden puts his age at his death in 1828 at 92, but there has been no independent confirmation of his birth date. somewhere in the North of England and is was to have studied medicine in Edinburgh, though Benedict Nicholson, in his biography of Joseph Wright of Derby, states that there is no record of a Benjamin Bates graduating in medicine from Edinburgh University at that time. He lived in Derby for a time, either as a child or after his studies. Around 1758 he bought a house at Ricksford's Hill,

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