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John Stuart Blackie 1809 – 1895 was a Scottish scholar and man of letters, a University Professor for over 40 years, first in Aberdeen 1841 – 1852, and then in Edinburgh 1852 – 1882,

John Stuart Blackie married his cousin Eliza Wyld, the daughter of James Wyld 1776 – 1880 and Marion Stodard Wyld, and the sister of George Wyld, President of The British Homeopathic Society,

John Stuart Blackie was a close friend of George John Douglas Campbell 1st & 8th Duke of Argyll, Matthew Arnold, Alexander Bain, Robert Browning, Thomas Carlyle, James Anthony Froude, William Ewert Gladstone, John Ruskin, Caroline Skene (goddaughter of Walter Scott), George Granville William Sutherland Leveson Gower 3rd Duke of Sutherland, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Oscar Wilde, George Wilson,

Eliza Wyld Blackie was also related to Henry Campbell Bannerman, Continue Reading »

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Sue :: Mar.15.2010 :: British History :: No Comments »

James Ramsay MacDonald 1866 – 1937 was a British Labour politician, who served two separate terms as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He rose from humble origins to become the first ever British Labour Prime Minister in 1924.

Ramsay MacDonald was looked after as a child by his father’s housekeeper, Mrs. Grey, the widow of a homeopathic doctor (?James Joseph Gray),

Ramsay MacDonald served under George V, who was a patient of homeopath John Weir (he knighted him), and was especially fond of using homeopathic remedies to cure his seasickness.

Ramsay MacDonald counted homeopathic supporters Richard Stafford Cripps and Sidney Webb in his cabinet, and Havelock Ellis and George Bernard Shaw as colleagues in the Fabian Society, so he would have also known Annie Wood Besant, Oliver Joseph Lodge, Frank Podmore, Katherine Maria Routledge, Herbert George Wells, Leonard Sidney Woolf,

Ramsay MacDonald was also a colleague of Herbert Henry Asquith, Henry Campbell Bannerman,  Stanley Baldwin,

Ramsay MacDonald moved to Bristol just as the Bristol Homeopathic Hospital was flourishing, and he was a private secretary to Thomas Lough (whose cousin, also called Thomas Lough, was a homeopath and whose Obituary is in The British Homeopathic Review, Volume 49 in 1905),

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Charles Guest 1826 – 1863 was a British pharmacist who converted to homeopathy and practiced in Bristol,

Charles Guest also advertised in The Lancet, Continue Reading »

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Fulwar Charles Skipwith 1810 – 1883 was a British East India Company Judge, a Judge in Chittagong, a Civil and Sessional Judge of Sylhet, and Supterintendant of Police in Cachar, an advocate of homeopathy, he was a Member of the Medical Committee of the Tunbridge Wells and West Kent Homeopathic Dispensary,

Fulwar Charles Skipwith was the 2nd son of Sir Grey Skipwith, 8th Baronet 1771 – 1852 (MP for Warwickshire and Warwickshire South, Patron of Leaming Spa Archery in 1851, and he published a monogram in Tunbridge Wells in 1867):

Fulwar Charles Skipwith was educated at Rugby, and he lived at Avon House, Tunbridge Wells, Continue Reading »

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John Spriggs Morss Churchill 1801 – 1875 publisher of homeopathic and hydropathy books and The Lancet,

John Churchill was a close friend of James Manby Gully,  a correspondent of Charles Darwin, and he published widely on homeopathy, and he also published The Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation by Robert Chambers, Continue Reading »

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Charles Trueman ?1802 – 1882, was a British businessman, Office Manager of the London Homeopathic Hospital, attended the Annual Festival in aid of the funds of the Charity in 1851 and in 1868 at the Riding School of the Calvary Barracks in Kensington: Continue Reading »

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Joseph Wippell 1810 – ?1884, was a British Grocer, Member of the Medical Committee of the Exeter Homeopathic Dispensary,

Joseph Wippell was the seventh child of a long established farming family from Thorverton, north of Exeter. Continue Reading »

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Sue :: Mar.11.2010 :: British History :: No Comments »

David Ridpath ?1838 – 1931 MB 1865, CM Edinburgh, MD 1874 Edinburgh, Medical Officer for East Riding, Yorkshire, was a British orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy, Member of the British Homeopathic Society,

Ridpath practiced in Sunderland, and at 8 Grange Crescent, Huddersfield, and in Driffield, Yorkshire, Continue Reading »

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George Loch 1811 – 1887 was a British politician. He was elected as a Liberal Member of Parliament for Wick in 1868, resigning in 1872 by becoming Steward of the Manor of Northstead.

George Loch was a participant in the Association for the Trial of Preventative and Curative Treatment in the Cattle Plague by the Homeopathic Method in 1866,

George Loch’s daughter Emily was Lady in Waiting to Queen Victoria’s third daughter, Princess Christian,

George Loch was a friend of Granville Leveson Gower 1st Earl Granville, and his brother James worked for George Granville Sutherland Leveson Gower 2nd Duke of Sutherland, Continue Reading »

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David William Witton ?1788 – ?1856 was a London Merchant of the firm D W Witton and Co, Vice Chairman of the Baptist Missionary Society West African Company, a Trustee of the London Homeopathic Hospital, and a Steward at the Annual Festival in aid of the funds of the Charity, and in commemoration of the opening of the London Homeopathic Hospital in 1851,

Witton apparently knew Lajos Kossuth, from his travels in Hungary,

Witton lived at 2 Crosby Square, London, and at Church Street, Edmonton, and at Cambridge Terrace, Edgeware Road, and at Great St. Helens and Belle View House Richmond, Continue Reading »

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