Richard Tonson Evanson

Richard Tonson Evanson
Born	1800
Died	1871
Residence	Home Hurst, Torquay
Occupation	medical
Society Membership membership ASL ordinary fellow left 1870.05.31 resigned elected_ASL 1867.06.18

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proposed 1867.06.04

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Richard Tonson Evanson was born in County Clare in 1800. After being educated at Trinity College, Dublin, he became apprenticed to Sir Philip Crampton, surgeon general to the army in Ireland. His first professional qualification was the MRCSI, followed by an MD of Glasgow University. Settling in Dublin as a physician, he was in 1830 appointed lecturer on Materia Medica in the Park Street Medical School. In 1836 he was elected Professor of Medicine in the Royal College. However, seven years later he resigned this post because of ill health from an irritable bowel, although he continued to practise in Dublin until 1847. He then retired to warmer climes on the continent, where for a time he was medical advisor to the Duke of Northumberland. Evanson has been described as an energetic and efficient man with a warm heart. He was charitable and benevolent, loved his profession, and had a large circle of friends. He was also a poet, publishing a book of poems, Nature and art, in 1868. Retiring to Torquay, he was invited to chair the BMA meeting in Plymouth in 1870. The following year he died in his sleep at the age of 71

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Science revealed: a poem. by Richard Tonson Evanson.