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@Slivicon:, I reverted your category change because it isn't clear if he was English (or Welsh or Scottish or Irish). Therefore, the default shouldn't be English but British. Clearly '20th-century British medical doctors' shouldn't be a container category: I can understand '20th-century British people by occupation' being a container category. Gaia Octavia AgrippaTalk 17:17, 18 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
If it's clear it shouldn't be a container category, why does it continue to be one? --Slivicon (talk) 17:26, 18 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
It was created in November 2011 as a container category. There is nothing stopping us changing it. If @Slivicon: agree with my reasoning above, I shall remove the restriction. Gaia Octavia AgrippaTalk 17:47, 18 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
The main article has a link to a 20 page memoir by two other Fellows of the Royal Society which makes it clear that his family background was in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Northumberland, so he should be regarded as English. NRPanikker (talk) 23:13, 17 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
