George Ponsonby O’Callaghan 2nd Viscount Lismore 1815 – 1898, High Sheriff of County Tipperary, Lord Lieutenant of County Tipperary,
Viscount Lismore was a patron of the of the London Homeopathic Hospital, Continue Reading »
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John Paul Cavenagh ?1862 – ?1927 LRCP, LMRCP Ireland, LRCS Ireland, LM Royal Hospital dublin, MBHS West Country Therapeutics Society, was an Irish orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy, Member of the British Homeopathic Society,
Cavenaugh attended the Annual Homeopathic Congress held in Harrowgate in 1908,
Cavenagh practiced at Thorneloe House, Worcester, and at Malvern, and at Droitwich, and he succeded to the practice of George Atkin in 1887, Continue Reading »
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Richard Tuthill Massy ?1816 – ?1889 MD Glasgow, 1844, LRCS Ireland 1843, was an Irish orthodox physician, member of the Surgical Society of Ireland, member of the Devon and Exeter Pathological Society, Physician to the Exeter Allopathic Dispensary, member of the Royal Dublin Society, member of the Brighton and Sussex Natural History Society, member of the Essex Archaeological Society, who converted to homeopathy to become Physician to the Worcester Homeopathic Dispensary, the Kidderminster Homeopathic Dispensary, member of the British Homeopathic Society, Physician to the Brighton Homeopathic Institute for the Diseases of Children,
Tuthill Massy was also a phrenologist,
Tuthill Massy practiced in Worcester, in Park Road, Redhill, in Wimbledon, in Surbiton, Surrey, in Sydenham, Kent, and at 17 Denmark Terrace, Brighton, Continue Reading »
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Richard Walter Hely Hutchinson 6th Earl of Donoughmore (Donaghmore) KP 1875 – 1948 was an Earl in the Peerage of Ireland who sat in the House of Lords as Viscount Hutchinson in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
Earl Donoughmore was an advocate and Patron of homeopathy, and the Chair of London Homeopathic Hospital meeting to inaugurate the homeopathic museum adjoining London Homeopathic Hospital. Hahnemann House was set up by Mazzini Stuart and Orsini Stuart, the sons of Peter Stuart.
Earl Donoghmore was a patron of homeopathy, launching in 1909, a National Homeopathic Fund of £50,000 alongside Robert Henryson Caird, Hugh Frederick Vaughan Campbell 4th Earl Cawdor, the Earl of Donoughmore, the Earl of Dysart, Robert Grosvenor 1st Baron Ebury, Sir John Knill, Robert William Perks, John Pakenham Stilwell, and George Wyatt Truscott, which successully raised enough money to renovate the London Homeopathic Hospital.
Earl Donoughmore was also a friend of Francis Wyatt Truscott,
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Charles William Bury 2nd Earl of Charleville 1801 – 1851 was an Irish Peer who was an enthusiastic advocate of homeopathy,
Charleville was a friend of Frederick Hervey Foster Quin, and Alfred Guillaume Gabriel d’Orsay (who drew his picture, see above), Continue Reading »
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William C Lord 1801? – 1874 FRPS, MRCVS was an Irish orthodox Veterinary Surgeon of the 14th Light Dragoons, and of the Duke of Cambridge’s Own 17th Lancers (most famous for its participation in the Charge of the Light Brigade in the Crimean War), Veterinary Surgeon to the Cavalry Barracks Canterbury, who converted to homeopathy,
William C Lord was a colleague of William Haycock, James Moore, J Wilkinson, Continue Reading »
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Patrick 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.
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Dionysius Lardner Boucicault (Boursiquot) 1820 – 1890 was an Irish actor and playwright famed for his melodramas.
Boucicault was a friend of many homeopathic supporters, including Charles Kean, Charles James Mathews, William Charles MacReady, Charles Reade, Lucia Elizabeth Vestris, Continue Reading »
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William MacOubrey 1800 – 1884 MD Trinity College Dublin 1825, was an Irish orthodox physician, orangeman and Barrister at Law in the Middle Temple 1839, who converted to homeopathy.
William MacOubrey was the physician of Henry James Snr, Continue Reading »
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Edith Anna Œnone Somerville 1858 – 1949 was an Irish novelist who habitually signed herself as “E. Œ. Somerville”. She wrote in collaboration with her cousin “Martin Ross” (Violet Martin) under the pseudonym, “Somerville and Ross”.
Edith Somerville was an advocate of homeopathy, as was Violet Martin. Somerville was a patient of Robert H Perks, Continue Reading »
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