Editing David Hartley (philosopher) (section)

==Early life and family history==
David Hartley was born in 1705 in the vicinity of [[Halifax, West Yorkshire|Halifax]], [[Yorkshire]]. His mother died three months after his birth. His father, an [[Anglican]] clergyman, died when David was fifteen. Hartley was educated at [[Bradford Grammar School]] and in 1722 was admitted as a [[Sizar]] to [[Jesus College, Cambridge]], where he was a [[Tobias Rustat|Rustat scholar]]. He received his BA in 1726 and MA in 1729.<ref>{{Cite ODNB|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-12494|title=Hartley, David (bap. 1705, d. 1757), philosopher and physician|last=Allen|first=Richard C.|date=2004-09-23|volume=1|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/12494}}</ref> In April 1730 he became the first layperson to be Master of Magnus Grammar School ([[Magnus Church of England Academy]]), Newark, and it was there that he began to practise medicine. On 21 April 1730, Hartley married Alice Rowley (1705–31). The couple moved to [[Bury St Edmunds]], and Alice died there giving birth to their son [[David Hartley (the Younger)]] (1731–1813). While in Bury, Hartley met his second wife, Elizabeth Packer (1713–78), the fifth child and only daughter of [[Robert Packer (died 1731)]] and Mary Winchcombe, a wealthy and influential family with estates in Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, and Berkshire, including [[Donnington Castle]] House, [[Shellingford]] Manor and [[Bucklebury]] House, [[Berkshire|Berks]]. (Mary Winchcombe was the daughter of Sir Henry Winchcombe, Bart., and the sister of Frances, wife of [[Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke]].) Despite the opposition of Elizabeth's family, David and Elizabeth wed on 25 August 1735, after agreeing to a severe set of restrictions that kept the £5,000 Elizabeth received upon her marriage completely out of the hands of her husband.<ref>Allen 1999, pp. 35–37.</ref> Their first child, Mary (1736–1803), was born eleven months later. In 1736 the family moved to London, and then in 1742 to [[Bath, Somerset|Bath]], [[Somerset]]. When Elizabeth's last surviving elder brother died without issue in 1746, their son [[Winchcombe Henry Hartley|Winchcombe Henry]] (1740–94) inherited the family estates, making the family (though not Hartley himself) the possessors of significant wealth. Hartley died in Bath on 28 August 1757. He was buried at St John the Baptist Church, [[Old Sodbury]], Gloucestershire.