William Lawrence
From historywiki
Revision as of 20:55, 22 August 2017 by WikiadminBot (talk | contribs) (Bot: Automated import of articles)
| William Lawrence FRS, FRCS | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | |||||||||||
| Born | 1783 | ||||||||||
| Died | 1867 | ||||||||||
| Residence | 18 Whitehall Place, SW | ||||||||||
| Occupation |
aristocracy medical | ||||||||||
| |||||||||||
Contents
Notes
Office Notes
House Notes
1867.11.19 Resolved that Dr Hunt be requested to write or to get written, a memoir of the late Sir William Lawrence Hon. Fellow of the Society.
Notes From Elsewhere
Sir William Lawrence, 1st Baronet FRCS FRS (Cirencester, 16 July 1783 – London, 5 July 1867) was an English surgeon who became President of the Royal College of Surgeons of London and Serjeant Surgeon to the Queen.
Member of the Athenaeum Club from 1830
Publications
External Publications
In his mid thirties he published two books of his lectures which contained pre-Darwinian ideas on man's nature and, effectively, on evolution. He was forced to withdraw the second (1819) book after fierce criticism; the Lord Chancellor ruled it blasphemous.
