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Lola Montez 1821 – 1861

Eliza Rosanna Gilbert, Countess of Landsfeld 1821 – 1861, known by the stage name Lola Montez, was an Irish born dancer and actress.

Lola Montez was a staunch supporter of homeopathy, and Ludwig I of Bavaria granted an annual award of 4000 florins for the Homeopathic Hospital of Munich on her behalf.

Lola Montez also sought out homeopath James John Garth Wilkinson, as he was a follower of Emanuel Swedenborg, and she was also a patient of James John Garth Wilkinson, and a friend of Marie, Comtesse d’Agoult, Alexandre Dumas, Emile de Girardin, Franz Liszt, George Sand, Continue Reading »

Sue :: Jul.03.2009 :: Irish History :: No Comments »

Frances Power Cobbe 1822 – 1904

Frances Power Cobbe 1822 – 1904 was an Irish writer who was a social reformer, feminist theorist and pioneer animal rights activist.

Frances Power Cobbe was a friend of Rosa Bonheur, Elizabeth Barret Browning, Harriet Hosmer, Anna Bonus Kingsford, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Arthur de Noe Walker, Continue Reading »

Sue :: Jun.28.2009 :: Irish History :: No Comments »

Edmund John Millington Synge 1871 – 1909

Edmund John Millington Synge 1871 – 1909 was an Irish playwright, poet, prose writer, and collector of folklore.

Synge came from a family who were advocates of homeopathy, and his family treated him with homeopathy throughout his life.

Synge was a friend of Maud Gonne, William Butler Yeats, Continue Reading »

Sue :: May.28.2009 :: Irish History :: No Comments »

William Walter 1818 – 1890

William Walter 1818? – 1890? MD St Andrews 1847 was an Irish orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy.

William Walter was a member of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, and he taught Joseph Kidd,

William Walter practiced at 217 North Earl Street, Dublin, and at St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin. Continue Reading »

Sue :: May.27.2009 :: Irish History :: No Comments »

William Barclay Browne Scriven 1823 – 1906

William Barclay Browne Scriven 1823 – 1906 AB, MB Trinity College 1840-2, MRCS London 1842, was an Irish orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy, formally a travelling physician, he became a member of the British Homeopathic Society, and Physician at the Dispensary of the Irish Homeopathic Society, and a Member of the Provincial Medical Council of the London Homeopathic Hospital,

William Scriven was the homeopathic practitioner of Agnes Strickland, Richard Whately. William Scriven explained that Richard Whately was converted to homeopathy when his favourite dog, given up by alopathic vets, was cured by homeopath Karl Sutton.

William Scriven was a colleague of Matthew James Chapman, Edward Charles Chepmell, Samuel Cockburn, William Vallancy Drury, William Todd Helmuth, William Henderson, Joseph Kidd, Charles W Luther, Jas Bell Metcalfe, John Ozanne, Frederick Hervey Foster Quin, Charles Ransford, John Rutherford Russell, George Wyld, Stephen Yeldham, and many others.

William Scriven practiced at 31 South Asia Street, Dublin, and at 40 Stevens Green, Dublin.

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Sue :: May.12.2009 :: British History, Irish History :: No Comments »

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce 1882 – 1941

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce 1882 – 1941 was an Irish expatriate author of the 20th century.

James Joyce has been referred to as the ‘Homeopathic Romantic’, and reviewers have commented upon the homeopathic, like cures like analogies in Bloom’s dialogue in Ulysses, Episode 15, Circe, and in Joyce’s subtle references to the ‘secret cause’ via Stephen Dedalus.

in 1903, James Joyce briefly studied medicine in Paris.

Carl Gustav Jung was the psychoanalyst of James Joyce’s daughter Lucia, who was briefly romatically involved with Samuel Barclay Beckett, who was a close friend of the Joyce family until he rejected Lucia and married someone else.

Joyce was also a friend of Daniel Nicol Dunlop, and William Butler Yeats.

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Sue :: Apr.27.2009 :: Irish History, Italian History :: No Comments »

Annie Wood Besant 1847 – 1933

Annie Wood Besant 1847 – 1933 was a prominent Theosophist, women’s rights activist, writer and orator and supporter of Irish and Indian self rule.

The Theosophy Society has supported homeopathy from its inception, and Annie Besant was supported by British homeopaths, and she read The British journal of Homeopathy, which came out to support Charles Bradlaugh.

Annie Besant reported on the activities of homeopaths in her Theosophy reviews as early as 1913, and she publicised homeopathy in her writing, reviewing John Henry Clarke‘s What is Man? in The Theosophist Magazine 1929, homeopathy itself in The Theosophist Magazine 1926, The Theosophist Magazine 1927, The Theosophist Magazine 1928, and The Theosophist Magazine 1930, and Rosa Hobhouse‘s Life of Christian Samuel Hahnemann, founder of homepathy in The Theosophist Magazine 1934.

Annie Besant was a student of Thomas Henry Huxley, and a colleague of Catherine Booth, Charles Robert Drysdale, William Gladstone, Pandit Gurtu, James Hinton, Aldous Huxley, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Frank Podmore, George Bernard Shaw, Rudolf Steiner, Arnold Toynbee, Sidney and Beatrice Webb, Oscar Wilde and his wife Constance Wilde, Virginia Woolf, Continue Reading »

Sue :: Apr.17.2009 :: British History, Indian History, Irish History :: No Comments »

Charles James Lever 1806 – 1872

Charles James Lever 1806 – 1872 was an Irish novelist.

Lever wrote about homeopathy in his book The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, The Daltons; Or, Three Roads in Life,

Lever was a friend of Charles Dickens, William Makepeace Thackeray, Oscar Wilde and his father William Wilde, Continue Reading »

Sue :: Apr.16.2009 :: Irish History :: No Comments »

Robert Thomas Cooper 1844 – 1903

Robert Thomas Cooper 1844 – 1903 BA, MD, Trinity College Dublin was an Irish orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy, to become a Physician for Diseases of the Ear at the London Homeopathic Hospital, and a member of the British Homeopathic Society.

Robert Thomas Copper was the founder of the Irish Forestry Society

Robert Thomas Cooper also practiced at 18 Wimpole Street, London, and in Southampton, and at 30A George Street, Hanover Square, and 17 Stanley Gardens, Notting Hill. Continue Reading »

Sue :: Feb.15.2009 :: British History, Irish History :: No Comments »

Arthur de Noe Walker 1820 – 1900

Chevalier Arthur de Noe Walker 1820 – 1900 MD St. Andrews, MRCS, LSA, was a British orthodox physician and a Captain in the 6th Madras Native Infantry (an interpreter), who converted to homeopathy.

Arthur de Noe Walker was a friend of homeopath Matthew James Chapman for over twenty years, and he was also a friend of Walter Savage Landor who dedicated poems to him (Arthur’s wife and children often stayed with Walter Savage Landor), Robert Browning, Lady Paget and Count d’Orsay.

Walter Savage Landor was a friend of the Countess of Blessington, Thomas Carlyle, Charles Dickens, Albany William Fonblanque, John Forster, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Kenneth Robert Henderson MacKenzie, Frederick Hervey Foster Quin, Alfred Lord Tennyson, so it seems possible to assume that Arthur de Noe Walker also knew these people.

Arthur de Noe Walker was also a colleague of Hugh Cameron, John Chapman, Matthew James Chapman, Edward Charles Chepmell, Paul Francois Curie, John James Drysdale, Harris F Dunsford, Edward Hamilton, Joseph Kidd, Thomas Robinson Leadam, Charles W Luther J Bell Metcalfe, Victor Massol, Frederick Hervey Foster Quin, Henry Reynolds, John Rutherford Russell, William Barclay Browne Scriven, David Wilson, Stephen Yeldham and many others. Continue Reading »

Sue :: Feb.12.2009 :: British History :: No Comments »

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