Thomas Alexander Wise
| Thomas Alexander Wise MD, FRSE | |||||||||||
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| Born | 1801 | ||||||||||
| Died | 1889 | ||||||||||
| Residence |
Rostillan Castle, Cork Rostellan-castle, Cork, Ireland, c/o Leaf, Son and Co., Old Change, Cheapside [Aug. 1866] 4 Upper Beulah Hill, Norwood [1872] Thornton, Beulah-hill, Upper Norwood [1879] | ||||||||||
| Occupation | medical | ||||||||||
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Office Notes
House Notes
proposed 1866.04.03
A5 264 Dr Joseph Barnard Davis, 27 Mar. – acknowledges Fellows’ List with names marked; has sent prospectuses to most of them; 136 subscriptions received; wishes to propose his friend, Dr T.A. Wise as a Fellow; has papers to send to the Moscow Society; and his report on ‘Dutch anthropology’ by Prof. Antonio Garliglietti; wishes to borrow some wood-cuts
1882.12.12 The resignations of the following gentlemen were accepted: ... Dr T.A. Wise
Notes From Elsewhere
Scottish surgeon (graduated M.D. at Edinburgh in 1824) of the Bengal Medical Service (East India Company Medical Staff.)
Thomas Alexander Wise, M.D., third son of Thomas Wise and Anne Chalmers, succeeded to the estate of Hillbank on the death of William, his elder brother, in 1845. For many years physician in the service of the Hon. East India Company, he held staff appointments at various important stations. He was some time Secretary to the Committee of Public Instruction, Bengal, and Principal of the Hooghly and Dacca Colleges. He is author of various professional and educational works. By the extinction of heirs-male, he is representative as heir-of-line (through his great-grandmother) of the baroneted House of Strachan.
Dr Wise married, first, Emily Isabella, daughter of J. Fownes Norton Disney, Esq., of Dublin, and niece of Lieutenant-General Disney, a distinguished soldier. Through her mother, Anne, daughter of Thomas Prendergast, Esq., barrister-at-law, she was niece of Sir Jeffrey Prendergast, K.C.B. She died 12th May 1839, leaving four sons and two daughters.
Thomas-Allan Macpherson, merchant, Dacca, died 1859, s.p.
William-Henry, (54th Bengal N.I., died 1858.
Emilius-Somerset, died young.
James-Fownes Norton, M.D., 011 the Staff of the Indian Government.
Anna-Margaret, married Colonel Nicolson, of the 64th Regiment.
Henrietta Babington, married Clement F. Lawless, Esq. of Kilcrone, county Cork.
Dr Wise married, secondly, Harriet Elizabeth, daughter of William Phelan, Esq. of Rock Abbey, county Tipperary,
representative of an old Milesian family. Of this marriage were born—
Frederic Donelly, died 1868, s.p.
Alexander Josiah Patrick, married, 9th August 1870,
Julia, second daughter of J. A. Woods, Esq. of Benton Hall, Northumberland.
Henry Douglas.
William Bernard.
Allan Hay.
Publications
External Publications
Dissertatio inauguralis quaedam de topographia medica complectens (1824)
Commentary on the Hindu System of Medicine: New Issue 1860
Practical Remarks on Insanity in Bengal (1852)
The Pathology of the Blood (1858)
Diseases of the Eye (1847)
Cholera, its symptoms, causes, and remedies
By Thomas Alexander Wise
Thoughts on education in India, its object and plan, Volume 22
The History of Medicine (1867)
Remarks on the Hemostatic Treatment of Cholera, Hemorrhage, Exhaustion, Etc
