Henry Kelsall 1802 – 1875
Henry Kelsall (LSA 1822 MD Glasg. 1842 FRCS Hon 1844) 1802 – 1875 graduate of the Apothecaries Hall in 1820, and of the College of Surgeons, Surgeon in the Royal Navy 1827, and Medical Officer to the Exeter Homeopathic Dispensary and the Leicester Homeopathic Dispensary, member of the English Homeopathic Association, member of the Hahnemann Medical Society, Physician to the Hahmenann Medical Institution and Dispensary, and Physician to the Hahnemann Hospital at 39 Bloomsbury Square.
Henry Kelsall was the homeopathic physician of Thomas Egerton 2nd Earl of Wilton and his family.
Henry Kelsall practiced at 3 Surrey Place, Old Kent Road and 1 Brighton Street, New Kent Road. Henry Kelsall is listed in the British Homeopathic Review in 1857 – 1858 working at the Leicester Homeopathic Dispensary, though he also wrote a report on the Indian Mutiny in the same years, so this needs to be clarified? However, Henry Kensall is listed in The British and Foreign Homeopathic Medical Directory and Record in 1855 at 27 London Road Leicester.
Henry Kelsall knew the Staff of the Hahnemann Hospital at 39 Bloomsbury Square which included John Anderson, James Chapman, Edward Charles Chepmell, Paul Francois Curie, Robert Ellis Dudgeon, Thomas Engall, Joseph Hands, Robert Hamilton, Amos Henriques, Charles Hunt, Joseph Laurie, Henry Victor Malan, James John Garth Wilkinson, David Wilson, William Leaf, George Wyld, Christian Karl Josias Bunsen, Thomas Egerton 2nd Earl of Wilton, Robert Grosvenor, Thomas Roupell Everest, Charles Powell Leslie, James More Molyneux, David Wilson, William Henry Ashurst, W T Berger, W A Case, J M Douglas, G H Flatcher, John Fowler, Joseph Glover, Sydney Hanson, Thomas Higgs, T H Johnstone, John Miller, Chas Pasley, Mathias Roth, Frederick Sandoz, W Stephenson, Samuel Sugden, Allan Templeton, Major Tyndale, William Warne, A Wilkinson, S Wilson and many others.
Henry Kelsall was a colleague of John Epps and George Napoleon Epps, and he attended a dinner in honour of Frederick Hervey Foster Quin in 1861, alonside William Edward Ayerst, Hugh Cameron, Matthew James Chapman, Edward Charles Chepmell, Edward Hamilton, Amos Henriques, George Calvert Holland, Joseph Kidd, Thomas Robinson Leadam, J Bell Metcalfe, John Rutherford Russell, George Wyld, Stephen Yeldham, William Bayes, and many others.
Henry Kelsall gave evidence in a Coronor’s case involving the death of a patient from cholera in 1850 which was widely reported at the time.
Henry Kensall is listed in The Homeopathic Medical Directory of 1872.
Henry Kelsall was born in Hilsea, Hants, the the second son of Joseph Kelsall 1753 – 1841 and Sarah Holmes – 1883, born in Ireland to a soldier and a doctor,
Henry Kelsall was a Naval Surgeon, recently appointed for an expedition to Africa in 1824 and an experienced Surgeon Superintendant who visited Sydney on the Andromeda in 1834,
Henry Kelsall’s Obituary is in The British Journal of Homeopathy in 1875.
Henry Kelsall wrote A comparison of prophetic scripture [in the Bible]… , The Manual of Hydrotherapy and Homeopathy, The Connection between magnetic phenomena and epidemic disease, Is Homeopathy to be put down?, and journal articles on Cholera to the British Journal of Homeopathy.
Of interest:
Henry Kelsall MD, son of Henry Kelsall, wrote An Army Doctor in the Indian Revolt, 1857-58: The Diary of Assistant Surgeon Henry Kelsall, H.M. 20th Regiment of Foot,
Henry Kelsall, nephew of Henry Kelsall, married twice, to Susan Hope Waddell and to Susan Trueman. He was a Major in the 16th Regiment. (Charles Trueman ?relation – was Office Manager of the London Homeopathic Hospital),
Sue :: Oct.11.2008 :: British History :: 3 Comments »
If I may offer some corrections to the above. There are errors in the source reference from the Society of Genealogists.
“Henry Kelsall married twice, to Susan Hope Waddell and to Susan Trueman. He was a Surgeon RN and a Major in the 16th Regiment.”
The Henry Kelsall (16th Regt) married to Susan Hope Waddell was Dr Kelsall’s nephew.
Dr Henry Kelsall (RN) married three times.
“He was a Surgeon RN and a Major in the 16th Regiment”
The former is Dr Henry Kelsall, the latter his nephew.
“Henry Kelsall wrote An Army Doctor in the Indian Revolt, 1857-58: The Diary of Assistant Surgeon Henry Kelsall, H.M. 20th Regiment of Foot”
This book was written by Dr Henry Kelsall’s son, also called Henry, and also a doctor.
Hi Anne Kelsall
Thank you so very much for your corrections, which I have made and greatly appreciate – it is all too easy for errors to creep in – and I am most grateful that you have taken the time to comment on them.
Thank you.
Sue
You are welcome. I hate to see mis-information proliferate.