Richard Poole (physician)

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Bust of Richard Poole owned by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh

Richard Poole (1783–1871) was a Scottish physician,

phrenologist.[2]

Life

Poole was born in Edinburgh, on 27 November 1781, from an English background.[3] His father Matthew Poole (or Pool) owned a coffee house and hotel at 1 Princes Street and lived above.[4]

By 1800 his father is retired and living at Reid's Close on the

Canongate in Edinburgh's Old Town.[5]

Poole studied Medicine and graduated M.D. at the University of St Andrews in 1805.[1] He was editor of the New Edinburgh Review, and published articles promoting phrenology in the early 1820s;[6] it existed 1821 to 1823.[7] Poole was also first editor of the Phrenological Journal.[8] Poole joined the editorial staff of the Encyclopædia Edinensis under James Millar.[9]

In 1820 he was living at 23 Broughton Street, a flat in Edinburgh's east end.[10]

Royal Lunatic Asylum, Montrose, in 1840.

From 1820 Poole campaigned for a new infirmary in Edinburgh.[11] In 1825 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.[3] In 1829 he was elected a member of the Aesculapian Club.[12] In 1831 Poole was elected a member of the Harveian Society of Edinburgh and served as one of its secretaries from 1834-1837.[13]

In the late 1830s he was a pioneer advocate of mental health reform,

W. A. F. Browne. He remained at Montrose until 1845. He then kept a private asylum at Middlefield, Aberdeenshire.[3]

Poole died in

St. Machar's Cathedral in Aberdeen
.

Works

He is credited with dramas, including "Willie Armstrong" performed in Edinburgh in 1829.[20][21]

Poole also wrote for the Edinburgh Encyclopædia and Encyclopædia Britannica.[3] A list of publications appeared in Scottish Notes and Queries.[22]

Family

An epitaph gives Jane Caird as Poole's wife; it also records his dates as 1781 to 1870.[23] Their children included Samuel Wordsworth Poole, a physician and episcopal clergyman.[24]

Artistic Recognition

A bust of Poole is held at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. It was donated by his daughter, Mrs Sandeman of Glasgow.[25]

References

  1. ^
    ISBN 978-0-521-22743-8
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  2. ISBN 978-0-521-22743-8
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  3. ^ a b c d e UM-MEDSEARCH Gateway (1870). The Lancet. J. Onwhyn. pp. 467–8.
  4. ^ Williamson's Edinburgh Directory 1784
  5. ^ Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1800
  6. ^ Hewett Cottrell Watson (1836). Statistics of phrenology: being a sketch of the progress and present state of that science in the British Islands. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman. Paternoster- Row. p. 194.
  7. ISBN 978-0-521-43266-5
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  8. PMID 765647
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  9. ^ James Millar (1827) Encyclopedia Edinensis; or, Dictionary of arts, sciences, and literature vol. 1, p. vi.
  10. ^ Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1820
  11. ISBN 978-0-521-64202-6
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  12. ^ Minute Books of the Aesculapian Club. Library of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
  13. ^ Watson Wemyss, Herbert Lindesay (1933). A Record of the Edinburgh Harveian Society. T&A Constable, Edinburgh.
  14. PMID 19190749
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  15. ^ Richard Poole (1825). An essay on education, applicable to children in general;. Waugh and Innes.
  16. ^ Journal of psychological medicine. 1855. p. 587.
  17. ^ Richard Poole; Andrew Duncan (1825). A Letter to Andrew Duncan, Senior, M.D. ... Regarding the Establishment of a New Infirmary. Archibald Constable.
  18. ^ The Lancet. Elsevier. 1827. pp. 416–8.
  19. ^ Richard Poole (1841). Memoranda regarding the Royal Lunatic Asylum, Infirmary, and Dispensary, of Montrose. J. & D. Nichol.
  20. ^ Ralston Inglis (1868). The Dramatic Writers of Scotland. G.D. Mackellar. pp. 95–.
  21. ^ Percy Bysshe Shelley (1829). The Edinburgh literary journal: or, Weekly register of criticism and belles lettres. Ballantyne. p. 42.
  22. ^ John Bulloch, John Alexander Henderson (editors), Scottish Notes and Queries (1888), p. 40; archive.org.
  23. ^ Alexander Macdonald Munro, Records of Old Aberdeen vol. 2 (1909), p. 248; archive.org.
  24. ISBN 978-0-567-08746-1
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  25. ^ "Art Listing".
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