Royal College of Surgeons

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death Dorothy Richardson
There was neither a burial nor a memorial ceremony. DR 's body, which she had donated to the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons , was returned to her family more than two years later...
Dedications Charlotte Riddell
She dedicated it to Frederick C. Skey , former president of the Royal College of Surgeons .
Ellis, Stewart Marsh. Wilkie Collins, Le Fanu, and Others. Books for Libraries Press, 1931.
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Already in 1871, ostensibly the year of its book publication, two other London publishers, Gall and Inglis
Family and Intimate relationships Helen Mathers
The son of a naval architect, Henry Reeves was born at Calcutta in India. He was educated at the grammar school at St Albans and at the Middlesex Hospital in London, and it...
Literary responses Harriet Martineau
The Athenæum's editor, Charles Wentworth Dilke , commissioned a reply that was attributed to the president of the Royal College of Surgeons , Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie . The response argued that HM was...
Occupation Harriet Shaw Weaver
Davies-Colley (who was the first woman to become a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons ) and Chadburn, overwhelmed and over-worked at their Harley Street Women's Hospital , asked HSW to help them lead...
Performance of text Anne Hunter
Haydn had taken with him an anonymous English libretto (based on the book of Genesis, the Psalms, and Milton 's Paradise Lost) when he left England in 1795. From this Gottfried van Swieten
politics Sophia Jex-Blake
The Council of the College of Surgeons decided to admit SJB and two of her colleagues to the examination in midwifery; at this the examiners resigned.
Moscucci, Ornella. The Science of Woman: Gynaecology and Gender in England, 1800-1929. Cambridge University Press, 1990.
72
Publishing Maria Edgeworth
ME intended her fiction to serve the same broadly didactic purpose, adapted to each rank of society and period of life, as did the directly educational writings in which she collaborated with her father.
Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon, 1972.
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Textual Features Hilary Mantel
Charles Byrne travelled from Ireland to London at the end of the eighteenth century to put himself on display as a freak or monster. Though he took ingenious steps to try to keep his body...
Textual Production Anne Hunter
AH left four manuscript volumes of poetry, three now at the Royal College of Surgeons and one at Aberdeen University .
Hunter, Anne. The Life and Poems of Anne Hunter, Haydn’s Tuneful Voice. Editor Grigson, Caroline, Liverpool University Press, 2009.
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The works that she left unprinted were chiefly songs (some of them pastoral)...
Wealth and Poverty Ethel Wilson
In 1931, Wallace Wilson was admitted as a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons . His practice was now located on West Georgia Street, a desirable area of Vancouver. In a...

Timeline

1460: Those London barbers who also practised as...

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1460

Those London barbers who also practised as surgeons incorporated a company to protect their interests.
Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.
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1511: An English Act of Parliament restricted surgery...

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1511

An English Act of Parliament restricted surgery to qualified persons.
Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.
10: 693

1745: Surgeons in England broke away from the Barbers'...

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1745

Surgeons in England broke away from the Barbers' Company to found their own corporation, the College of Surgeons .
Porter, Roy, editor. The Cambridge Illustrated History of Medicine. Cambridge University Press, 1996.
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1800: The College of Surgeons in London received...

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1800

The College of Surgeons in London received a royal charter and became the Royal College of Surgeons .
Porter, Roy. English Society in the Eighteenth Century. Penguin, 1982.
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Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.
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1 January 1828: The Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons expanded...

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1 January 1828

The Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons expanded the requirements for membership to include two courses of lectures on obstretrics.
Moscucci, Ornella. The Science of Woman: Gynaecology and Gender in England, 1800-1929. Cambridge University Press, 1990.
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Towler, Jean. Midwives in History and Society. Croom Helm, 1986.
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1843: The College of Surgeons became the Royal...

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1843

The College of Surgeons became the Royal College of Surgeons .
Youngson, A. J. The Scientific Revolution in Victorian Medicine. Holmes and Meier, 1979.
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1851: The Royal College of Surgeons set up the...

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1851

The Royal College of Surgeons set up the first male midwifery course in London and excluded female midwives.
Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988.
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December 1852: The first examination for the Midwifery Licence...

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December 1852

The first examination for the Midwifery Licence of the College of Surgeons was held.
Moscucci, Ornella. The Science of Woman: Gynaecology and Gender in England, 1800-1929. Cambridge University Press, 1990.
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Towler, Jean. Midwives in History and Society. Croom Helm, 1986.
149
Donnison, Jean. Midwives and Medical Men: A History of Inter-Professional Rivalries and Women’s Rights. Schocken Books, 1977.
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1859: The Royal College of Surgeons introduced...

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1859

The Royal College of Surgeons introduced a Licence in Dental Surgery.
Donnison, Jean. Midwives and Medical Men: A History of Inter-Professional Rivalries and Women’s Rights. Schocken Books, 1977.
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Early 1859: The Obstetrical Society of London was fo...

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Early 1859

The Obstetrical Society of London was founded.
Moscucci, Ornella. The Science of Woman: Gynaecology and Gender in England, 1800-1929. Cambridge University Press, 1990.
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Donnison, Jean. Midwives and Medical Men: A History of Inter-Professional Rivalries and Women’s Rights. Schocken Books, 1977.
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1871: Dr Robert Fowler published his account of...

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1871

Dr Robert Fowler published his account of the widely publicized case of Sarah Jacob , a fourteen year-old who died from starvation associated with girlhood hysteria.
Brumberg, Joan Jacobs. Fasting Girls. Harvard University Press, 1988.
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Brumberg, Joan Jacobs. Fasting Girls. Harvard University Press, 1988.
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1911: The Royal College of Surgeons admitted its...

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1911

The Royal College of Surgeons admitted its first woman, Eleanor Davies-Colley , who later founded the South London Hospital for Women and Children .
“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

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