William Lawrence
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| William Lawrence FRS, FRCS | |||||||||||
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| Born | 1783 | ||||||||||
| Died | 1867 | ||||||||||
| Residence | 18 Whitehall Place, SW | ||||||||||
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aristocracy medical | ||||||||||
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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.
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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
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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.