In 1621 George Joyliffe was born.
In 1637 George Joyliffe [aged 16] matriculated from Wadham College, Oxford University.
In 1643 George Joyliffe [aged 22] was awarded Master of Arts: Oxford University from Pembroke College, Oxford University.
John Evelyn's Diary. 25th February 1649. Came to visit me Dr. Joyliffe [aged 28], discoverer of the lymphatic vessels, and an excellent anatomist.
John Evelyn's Diary. 10th January 1657. Came Dr. Joyliffe [aged 36], that famous physician and anatomist, first detector of the lymphatic veins; also the old Marquis of Argyle [aged 49], and another Scotch Earl.
John Evelyn's Diary. 19th October 1657. I went to see divers gardens about London: returning, I saw at Dr. Joyliffe's [aged 36] two Virginian rattlesnakes alive, exceeding a yard in length, small heads, slender tails, but in the middle nearly the size of my leg; when vexed, swiftly vibrating and shaking their tails, as loud as a child's rattle; this, by the collision of certain gristly skins curiously jointed, yet loose, and transparent as parchment, by which they give warning; a providential caution for other creatures to avoid them. The Doctor tried their biting on rats and mice, which they immediately killed: but their vigor must needs be much exhausted here, in another climate, and kept only in a barrel of bran.
In 1658 George Joyliffe [aged 37] died.