James Risdon Bennett

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James Risdon Bennett
Born(1809-09-29)29 September 1809
Romsey, Hampshire, England
Died24 December 1891(1891-12-24) (aged 82)
Cavendish Square, London, England
NationalityEnglish
Occupationphysician

Sir James Risdon Bennett (29 September 1809 – 24 December 1891) was an English physician.

Life

The eldest son of the Rev. James Bennett, a nonconformist minister, he was born at Romsey on 29 September 1809. He received his education at Rotherham College, Yorkshire, of which his father became principal; and at the age of fifteen was apprenticed to Thomas Waterhouse of Sheffield. In 1830 he went to Paris, and then to Edinburgh, where he graduated M.D. in 1833.[1]

In the autumn of 1833 Bennett accompanied

Grainger's school of medicine.[1]

In 1843 Bennett was appointed assistant physician to

St. Thomas's Hospital, and in 1849 full physician. On the foundation of the City of London Hospital for Diseases of the Chest in 1848 he was appointed physician there;[2] and from 1843 to its dissolution in 1867 acted as secretary to the Sydenham Society.[1] He was made a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1846 . In 1850 he was President of the Medical Society of London.[3] In 1875, he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society.[1]

Settling in

President of the Royal College of Physicians, the first non Oxford or Cambridge graduate since its inception, and held the post for 5 years. He was knighted in 1881. He then moved to Cavendish Square, where he died on 14 December 1891.[1]

He was the

Lumleian Lecturer
in 1870 on "Cancer and Cancerous Growths."

Works

Bennett's published works included:[1]

  • a translation of Wilhelm Kramer on Diseases of the Ear, 1837;
  • Acute Hydrocephalus, an essay which obtained the Fothergillian gold medal of the Medical Society of London in 1842, and was published in following year; and
  • Intra-thoracic Tumours, 1872, Lumleian Lectures.
  • The Diseases of the Bible. By-paths of Bible Knowledge. Vol. 9. Religious Tract Society. 1887.[4][5]

Family

Bennett married, in June 1841, Ellen Selfe, daughter of the Rev. Henry Page of Rose Hill, Worcester, by whom he had nine children, of whom six survived.[1]

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d e f g Lee, Sidney, ed. (1901). "Bennett, James Risdon" . Dictionary of National Biography (1st supplement). Vol. 1. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  2. ^ Butterworth, Lady (1926). The Story of a City Hospital 1848-1925. London: Unwin Brothers. pp. 28, 29, 30.
  3. ^ "November 30, 1850". London Journal of Medicine. III. London: Taylor, Walton, & Maberly: 92. 1851.
  4. ^ "Review of The Diseases of the Bible by Sir Risdon Bennett, M.D." The Athenaeum (3184): 596. 3 November 1887.
  5. ^ "Review of The Diseases of the Bible by Sir Risdon Bennett, M.D." Supplement to The Spectator. 12 October 1889. p. 497.
Attribution

Wikisource This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lee, Sidney, ed. (1901). "Bennett, James Risdon". Dictionary of National Biography (1st supplement). Vol. 1. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

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