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William Philip Harrison 1821 – 1892

Manchester 1851William Philip Harrison 1821? – 1892? MRSC, LAC, was a British orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy, to become a supporter of the Manchester Homeopathic Hospital, a Physician at the Manchester and Salford Homeopathic Dispensary, and a member of the Association for the Protection of Homeopathic Students and Practitioners.

In 1851, J B Harrison was a subscriber to the Manchester Homeopathic Hospital, alongside William Armitage, Henry Dixon, Richard Durnford, Francis Egerton 1st Earl of Ellesmere, J MacDowall, John Edward Norton, Edward Phillips, Alfred Crosby PopeCharles Caulfield Tuckey, Robert Walker, Thomas Egerton 2nd Earl of Wilton, and many others. Continue Reading »

Henry Dixon 1800 – 1879

Bank of EnglandHenry Dixon 1800 – 1879? was a British Banker and auditor who worked at the Bank of England who was an advocate of homeopathy, and an auditor of the Mangement Committee of the Manchester Homeopathic Hospital, and a member of the Association for the Protection of Homeopathic Students and Practitioners.

Henry Dixon was a colleague of John Epps,

In 1851, Henry Dixon was  on the Mangement Committee of the Manchester Homeopathic Hospital, alongside William Armitage, Richard Durnford, Francis Egerton 1st Earl of Ellesmere, J MacDowall, John Edward Norton, Edward Phillips, Alfred Crosby PopeCharles Caulfield Tuckey, Robert Walker, Thomas Egerton 2nd Earl of Wilton, and many others. Continue Reading »

Richard Durnford 1802 – 1895

Richard Durnford 1802 - 1895Richard Durnford 1802 – 1895 was a British Vicar, Rector of Middleton (from 1835 – 1870) at St. Leonard’s Church, and then Bishop of Chester until his death.

In 1851, Richard Durnford was was on the Mangement Committee of the Manchester Homeopathic Hospital, alongside William Armitage, Henry Dixon, Francis Egerton 1st Earl of Ellesmere, J MacDowall, John Edward Norton, Edward Phillips, Alfred Crosby PopeCharles Caulfield Tuckey, Robert Walker, Thomas Egerton 2nd Earl of Wilton, and many others.

Richard Durnford spoke at length about the need for a homeopathic Hospital in Manchester, and he praised homeopaths for their ardent study of great medical texts, alongside the works of Samuel Hahnemann.

Richard Durnford also praised the homeopaths for their fortitude against the coldness and emnity of the allopaths, and the sacrifices they had made to uphold their Truth, thus is was the duty of people who uphold such Truth to step forward to support them.

In 1851, Richard Durnford was a member of the Association for the Protection of Homeopathic Students and Practitioners.

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William Armitage 1800 – 1879

Cotton ManufactureWilliam Armitage 1800? – 1879? was a British Cotton Magnate, the brother of Elkanah Armitage, and the uncle of Benjamin Armitage.

In 1851, William Armitage was on the Mangement Committee of the Manchester Homeopathic Hospital, alongside Richard Durnford, Francis Egerton 1st Earl of Ellesmere, J MacDowall, John Edward Norton, Edward Phillips, Alfred Crosby PopeCharles Caulfield Tuckey, Robert Walker, Thomas Egerton 2nd Earl of Wilton, and many others.

In 1851, William Armitage was a member of the Association for the Protection of Homeopathic Students and Practitioners.

Like his brother Elkanah Armitage, William Armitage was a lifelong friend and supporter of John Bright. Continue Reading »

John Edward Norton 1820 – 1874

PenmaenmawrJohn Edward Norton 1820? – 1874 MD was a British orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy, to become a Physician at the Manchester Homeopathic Hospital, medical superintendent of the Llandudno Hydropathic Establishment, and a member of the Association for the Protection of Homeopathic Students and Practitioners,

In 1847, charged were brought against John Edward Norton after the death of a child (ten month old Thomas Hillier) he was treating. The Judge dismissed the case at the Inquest, the the jury, probably influenced by the fact that Mr. Hilliar had lost two other children from bronchitis despite having received allopathic treatment for their illness, were unanimous.

John Edward Norton taught Henry Thomas, and he practiced in Chester, and he spent his summer months practicing in Penmaenmawr in Wales, and in Llandudno, Continue Reading »

Patrick A Brady 1826 – 1878

Kings College AberdeenPatrick A Brady 1826? – 1878 MD was an Irish orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy and was refused his graduation diploma at Kings College Aberdeen, and he was also refused a position as Surgeon at Bradford Infirmary in 1852, alongside John Le Gay Brereton 1827 – 1886 (who eventually emigrated to Australia where he opened the first Turkish bath in Australia), as a result.

The Association for the Protection of Homeopathic Students and Practitioners immediately came to his aid. In 1852, Patrick A Brady received his medical diploma.

In 1855, James John Garth Wilkinson wrote to Benjamin Hall to argue the case for provision of homeopathy into local hospitals, intimating that Francis William Brady MP would argue the case for homeopathy (in fact James John Garth Wilkinson calls Francis William Brady MP the ‘Luther of Homeopathy in the House of Commons‘).

In 1867, Francis William Brady MP and Thomas Emerson Headlam MP, managed to influence the Medical Registration Bill, and in that same year, Frederick Hervey Foster Quin was able to obtain an amendment to the Medical Registration Bill; a clause was added enabling the Privy Council to withdraw the right to award degrees from any university that tried to impose the type of medicine practised by its graduates.

Patrick Brady practiced in Bradford, Huddersfield and Sunderland.

Patrick Brady’s Obituary is in the British Homeopathic Review in 1878.

Of interest:

G S Brady submitted a paper, On the Medical Action of Glonoine, to the British Journal of Homeopathy, Volume 18 in 1860.

William MacDonald 1798 – 1875

St. Andrews UniversityWilliam MacDonald 1798 – 1875  MD Edinburgh 1818, FRSE, E, FLS, FGS, FRCPE, E, MWS, MRPS, MRMS Edinburgh, Professor of Civil History in the United Colleges of St. Salvador and St. Leonards, St. Andrews Professor of Ntural History, was a British orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy to become a member of the Association for the Protection of Homeopathic Students and Practitioners, a member of the British Homeopathic Society,and a member of the Homeopathic Fellows of the Edinburgh College of Physicians,

It is possible that William MacDonald may have been a patient of Samuel Hahnemann in Paris, and his wife was a patient of Dionysius Wielobycki in 1846,when she suffered a placenta previa, Continue Reading »

Robert Ellis Dudgeon 1820 – 1904

Robert Ellis Dudgeon 1820 – 1904 Licentiate of the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh in 1839, Robert Ellis Dudgeon studied in Paris and Vienna before graduating as a doctor.

Robert Ellis Dudgeon then became the editor of the British Journal of Homeopathy and he held this post for forty years.

Robert Ellis Dudgeon practiced at the London Homeopathic Hospital and specialised in Optics, writing prodigiously on the subject and inventing spectacles which could be used under water (he was a keen swimmer, volunteer and golfer).

Robert Ellis Dudgeon was a close friend of Samuel Butler, the author of Erewhon, who may have influenced Dudgeon to write his novel Colymbia, a fantasy set under the sea. Continue Reading »

John Anderson 1817 – 1875

Ventnor John Anderson 1817? – 1875? LSA, MRSA, MD was a British orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy after 20 years of allopathic practice, to become Physician to the Clapham Homeopathic Dispensary, a Trustee and Honarary Secretary of the Hahnemann Hospital at 39 Bloomsbury Square, and a member of the Hahnemann Medical Society,

John Anderson wrote to The Medical Times and Gazette in defense of homeopathy, who refused to publish his letter on the grounds that ‘homeopathy was just a system of quackery’, and so his letter was published in full in The British Homeopathic Journal.

John Anderson practiced in Ventnor, Isle of Wight, and at 4 Bedford Terrce, Clapham Rise,

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William Henry Ashurst 1792 – 1855

Old Jewry StreetWilliam Henry Ashurst Snr 1792 – 1855 was a British Solicitor who founded Ashurst Morris Crisp at 6 Old Jewry Street, a radical ideologist, who, with his son William Henry Ashurst Jnr, supported every progressive cause from the 1832 Reform Bill onwards, including Antislavery, Chartism, Poor Relief,  the Postal Service, Feminism, the Peace Movement in Britian, and Nationalist Movements abroad, and homeopathy.

William Henry Ashurst was the father in law of James Stansfeld, and a friend of John Epps, Giuseppe Mazzini,

William Henry Ashurst founded the Friends of Italy Society and the People’s International League.

Ashurst Morris Crisp was the law firm for James Morrison of the Fore Street Warehouse (the ‘Napoleon of Shopkeepers‘), who on his death in 1854 left a personal fortune second only to Nathan Rothschild,

William Henry Ashurst was on the Medical Council of the Hahnemann Hospital at 39 Bloomsbury Square, and he was a colleague of John Epps, and a member of The Association for the Protection of Homeopathic Students and Practitioners (address 6 Old Jewry Street), a member of the English Homeopathic Association,

William Henry Ashurst supported Elizabeth Cady Stanton, in her right to be seated at the American Convention in 1840, and his daughter, Elizabeth A Ashurst 1820? – 1850, also accompanied him to Antislavery meetings.

William Henry Ashurst and his family also supported Giuseppe Mazzini, through whom he met Thomas Carlyle, Continue Reading »

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