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William Lawrence

William Lawrence
FRS, FRCS
Lawrence, William.jpg
Born 1783
Died 1867
Residence 18 Whitehall Place, SW
Occupation aristocracy
medical
Society Membership
membership ASL Hon. Fellow
left 1867 deceased
elected_ASL 1863.06.23
clubs Athenaeum Club
societies Royal Society
Royal College of Surgeons

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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.

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