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- Keat’s medical career began after he left Enfield academy, when his guardian Richard Abbey forced him into an apprenticeship under a prestigious surgeon, Thomas Hammond. His job as a “dresser” at Guy’s Hospital, entailed him to complete tasks such as holding back patients during surgery and bandaging their injuries and wounds.
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Feb 1, 2015 · Keats’s father, Thomas Keats, died on Sunday, 15 April 1804, while returning home from visiting John and George at Enfield school. It was believed his horse slipped on the cobblestones and threw him to the ground. Suffering a skull fracture, he lived for a few hours after being found by a night watchman.
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Thomas was working as a stable manager for John Jennings when he met Jennings's daughter, Francis. Thomas, known for his charm, energy, and respectability, crossed the social barrier and won Francis's heart and the two were married.
Thomas Keats managed the stable for his father-in-law and later owned it, providing the family an income comfortable enough for them to buy a home and send the older children, John and George (1797-1841), to the small village academy of Enfield, run by the liberal and gifted teacher John Clarke.
By now his brother George had emigrated to America, and his youngest brother Tom was mortally ill with consumption. When he died on 1 December 1818, Keats moved into lodgings with his friend Charles Armitage Brown at Wentworth Place – now Keats House Hampstead.
Keats, like his mother and brother Tom, contacted tuberculosis. He was invited to Rome by Shelley to convalesce, and eventually traveled there in 1821 with the painter John Severn; his health continued to decline and he died in Rome.
Apr 2, 2014 · A revered English poet whose short life spanned just 25 years, John Keats was born October 31, 1795, in London, England. He was the oldest of Thomas and Frances Keats’ four children.
Feb 8, 2015 · He becomes life-long friends with the headmaster’s son, Charles Cowden Clark, who is eight years older. George enters with him; Tom arrives later. 1804. 15 April, John’s father has a riding accident on his way home from visiting John and George at Enfield; he dies the following day.
