Charles William Hoyland
| Charles William Hoyland MRCS | |||||||||
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| Born | 1808 | ||||||||
| Died | 1889 | ||||||||
| Residence | Constantinople | ||||||||
| Occupation | medical | ||||||||
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proposed 1867.06.04 as local secretary
Hayland in A3
Heyland in list 1869.08.01
Hoyland in list 1872, 1875
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Charles William Hoyland (Snr) F.R.C.S. was born on 7 Mar 1808 in Warrington, Lancs. He was christened on 6 Jun 1808 in Warrington, Lancashire. He died in 1889 in Croydon, Surrey.
Charles married Emily Priscilla Lewis daughter of Peter Roynon Lewis and Sophia Amelia Duncombe on 19 Jul 1834 in St. Marylebone, Westminster, Middx. Emily was born on 21 Aug 1808 in Middx, London. She was christened on 10 Sep 1808 in Saint Martin In The Field, Westminster, London. She died on 2 Apr 1878 in Hilden, Tunbridge, Kent.
It is this Charles William Hoyland who was Surgeon Superintendant at the British Seaman’s Hospital in Galata.
Hoyland, Charles William - (From Foreign Office Lists 1882)
Is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, of England; was some time the Surgeon to the Queen Adelaide’s Lying in Hospital and Harrison’s Spinal Infirmary; and was Surgeon and Superintendant of the British Seaman’s Hospital in Constantinople, from June 22, 1855, till April 1868, when his services ceased.
British Seaman’s Hospital
Galata 24 July 1856
Received for Rev. G Curtis
at the Hospital Galata
7 cases and 2 Shale parcels with 15 bales
Chs. Wm. Hoyland F.R.C.S.
Surgeon & Superintendant
(Nightingale Part 1-4 at British Library - Add 43401, ff.221)
(Rev. G. C. Curtis, S. P. G. Missionary)
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British Seaman’s Hospital
Galata 21 July 1856
Madam,
I have the honour to acknowledge in the absence of the Revd. G Curtis the receipt of the articles you have had the kindness to forward - The young man has been detained much longer than anticipated, in consequence of the difficulty experienced in obtaining Hamals to carry them to the Hospital. Should you know have ant time disengaged I shall feel highly honoured, if you ???ile favour (us) with a visit of inspection, the patients having been removed from the old House. I shall have great pleasure in waiting on you, according as you bequest to view the drying room.
I am Madam
Yours Most Obediently
Chs. Wm. Hoyland F.R.C.S.
Surgeon & Superintendant
(Nightingale Part 1-4 at British Library - Add 43401, ff.211)
Experiences of a civilian in eastern military hospitals
Peter Pincoffs - 1857 - (page 14)
‘The old English hospital behind the Embassy was certainly the worst of all civil hospitals, a new one has lately been built on the high part of Galata which is said to be extremely good and likely, under the able management of Dr. Hoyland by whom many improvements have been suggested, to become one of the best Establishments of its kind.’
The Times, Friday, Jan 09, 1857; pg. 8; Issue 22573; col A
Foreign Intelligence
The news from the Principalities is rather more satisfactory than it was some time ago.
The present Turkish government seems to have understood the folly of violently suppressing the expression of public opinion on the union, and has adopted a milder course in its policy. The Austrian army of occupation is likewise reported to behave much better. Except a few cases of excess, which after all, are inseparable from any army of occupation, no complaints are heard from the inhabitants.
In the course of last winter I had to speak of the British Consular Hospital in this place as one of the dirtiest and most inefficient establishments of its kind. I am happy to state that it has become now one of the cleanest and best regulated hospitals which could be found anywhere.
From the dreary old house behind the Embassy, shut in by even more wretched houses, it has been transferred to a new building in Galata, erected on purpose for it. The new hospital, built of stone, is without any pretentions to architecture, but is solid and simple. It is entirely separated from all surrounding houses, and enclosed by a wall, within the precincts of which are likewise the consular prison and the ground destined for the new consular offices. The interior of the building leaves nothing to be desired. The wards are high and airy, with plenty of light, and a beautiful view over the Golden Horn. Hot-air tubes pass all over the house, establishing an equal temperature and promoting the ventilation of the place. As all the wards are in the upper storeys, an apparatus has been sent out from England to hoist up the patients, which, especially in cases of fractures, is very convenient, as the patients can be dressed below, and are thus spared the pain that would otherwise attend their transport upstairs. The apparatus serves likewise for sending up the meals of the patients from the kitchen below, a convenience which serves also to preserve the cleanliness of the passages.
As for the interior arrangements, Dr. HOYLAND, under whose charge the hospital is, as well as the prison, deserves great credit. Even an eye rendered rather fastidious by the Scutari hospitals in their latter days would find nothing to criticise. The patient is surrounded by every comfort. In the furniture all the latest improvements have been adopted, some of them at Dr. HOYLAND’s suggestion. Part of it was sent out by the Board of Works, but not a little is due to Miss NIGHTINGALE, who, in spite of the manifold claims to her exertions, did not overlook the seamen’s hospital, and procured whatever she could for its outfit. The hospital attendants are now nearly all English, and among them is one of the nurses from Scutari. This, besides adding to the comfort of the patients, makes likewise the great cleanliness possible for which the hospital is remarkable. This cleanliness is not confined to the wards, but extends all over the house, down to the pantry and kitchen. Every ward is supplied with books and a game of draughts. The only things wanted as yet are a separate dead-house, and a bath-room, for both of which purposes one of the apartments of the hospital is used at present. It is intended to buy a contiguous piece of ground in the rear of the hospital for these buildings. Since the close of war the number of patients has been considerably reduced, and at the present moment it does not amount to more than 20.
If great improvements have been made since the beginning of this year in the Consular Hospital, they are nothing in comparison to the changes that have taken place since that time in the consular prison. Indeed, the prisoners who have remained from that time must feel like men transported from one of the worst dungeons of the dark middle ages to a gentle house of correction, managed with the philanthropic spirit of the 19th century. Not more than a year ago they were thrown together in one of the Turkish prisons of Kassim Pasha, uncared for, eaten up by vermin, and treated more like dangerous wild beasts than human beings. It was some improvement when they were taken from these and shut up in a hulk which the Turkish Government had put at the disposal of the Consulate for that purpose; but even if they were not much better off, for, except that they were thus separated from the worst outcasts, assassins, and highway robbers of the Ottoman empire, and were no longer brutally treated, they remained in the same state of filth and hopeless degradation, so that a man that entered the hulk for a comparatively small offence was almost sure to come out a consummate ruffian.
The new prison, a strong building of two stories high, is subdivided into good sized and high wards, all vaulted, and containing, usually, six prisoners. One of the wards is appropriated to hospital purposes. The wards are flagged and contain nothing but beds and working implements of the prisoners. The prison is in charge of a special gaoler, his assistant, and a Turkish kavass, while all the sanitary arrangements are under the inspection of Dr. HOYLAND, who has been just as successful in keeping the prison clean as the hospital. Indeed, if anything can be objected to the new prison, it is that there are no means of punishing any offence against discipline, or even carrying out the heavy sentences of the law. Several of the prisoners are condemned to hard labour, but hitherto no means have been found to give them any kind of labour, so that each conclave is left to its own reflections all day long. Dr. HOYLAND proposes to get up a small treadmill, for the prisoners to grind their own corn, and then to employ them on matting or other kinds of occupation. But hitherto nothing has been done in this respect. Then there are no cells, which, since flogging has been given up, would be the most efficient means of breaking in unruly spirits. The number of prisoners at this moment is 40.
While speaking of the Government establishments for curing the physical and morale diseases of sailors and other British subjects in Constantinople, I must draw your attention to an analogous subject, which excited lately public attention. Repeatedly English sailors without a ship, discharged officer’s servants, and others who remained behind after the war, have been brought into the Consular Hospital, dying from cold and starvation, Any enquiry into the subject showed that there were about 50 or 60 such persons, without work or any other means of subsistence, hanging about the town, sleeping in the pontoons of the bridge or anywhere else, and trying to live by all kinds of devices, fair or foul. No doubt there may be more than one of them who is an incorrigible vagabond and “loafer”, but there are certainly many who by the close of the war found themselves without work and means of subsistance, and who would be glad to get out of the precarious state of existence they are leading.
Dr. HOYLAND, whose attention the subject first excited, having questioned the men who were brought in starved, proposes to get up a house of refuge, in which the men could remain during a night, and get their soup in the morning. A list of subscriptions has been opened for this purpose, which yields already £160 sterling. Besides this, what is even more important, several Englishmen in business have offered to employ those who are sent to them with a recommendation from Dr. HOYLAND. Thus, by degrees, the men could be got rid of. Those who should prove themselves inveterate vagabonds could be sent away by the Consul, and the place thus cleared from what, in the eyes of the Turks, and everybody else, must be a disgrace to the English name.
The Journal of mental science - 1858 (page 450)
‘We may take for example the hospital for sailors at Constantinople, which was formerly under the direction of the physician to the embassy; the consequence was that the duties were very much neglected, because his avocation called him constantly from the hospital to Therapia, Scutari, Büyükdere, Stamboul, etc., he was necessarily obliged to leave his patients to anyone he could find willing to attend the sick in the hospital; whereas lately the hospital has been placed entirely under the direction of a resident surgeon (with a proper remuneration) Mr. Hoyland, and there can be no doubt that its management is satisfactory. We can say from a recent visit to it, we found the condition of the wards very creditable to the medical authority, under which they are placed.’
The Times, Tuesday, Feb 04, 1862; pg. 7; Issue 24160; col A
Foreign Intelligence
TURKEY - (From our own correspondent) Jan 24
The guardians of the Scutari Cemetery, who were so brutally assaulted by Turkish soldiers last week, are still lying in hospital suffering severely from their wounds. Sergeant Lyne, besides other injuries, received a very deep cut in the head, but I am assured by Dr. HOYLAND, who attends him, that there is little ground for anticipating more serious consequences. One of the two Croats was still more roughly handled; and from the accounts given of the conduct of the soldiers who were engaged in the onslaught, and of their comrades who were calling out to them to put an end to the Giaours, it seems very fortunate that the three men were not murdered.
Bradshaw’s Continental (afterwards, monthly Continental Railway) - 1866
Turkey (Page 499)
English Physicians - Doctors Hoyland, Sarell, and Milligan
Charles (snr) had 9 children in total... another of which was my great great grandmother Edith Hoyland born 13th April 1847, being a sister to Charles (jnr)
It was Edith, who on the 29th April 1867 married Frederick Heald at the British Embassy Chapel, Pera.
The Morning Post (London, England), Thursday, May 09, 1867; pg. 8; Issue 29145
On the 29th ult., at the British Embassy Chapel, Pera, Constantinople, by the Rev C.B. Gribble M.A., chaplain to the Embassy, assisted by the Rev C.G. Castle, M.A., Frederick Heald Esq., eldest son of Joseph Heald Esq., of Newcastle-on-Tyne, to Edith, youngest daughter of C.W. Hoyland Esq., M.D., surgeon and superintendant of the British Seaman’s Hospital, Constantinople.
Frederick Heald - notes
The Times, Saturday, Jun 10, 1871; pg. 10; Issue 27086; col. A
Money-Market & City Intelligence.
Category: Business and Finance
The following relates to the Railway Liabilities of Turkey:-
June 6
Sir, - We have noticed in your impression of yesterday a letter of Mr. A J King concerning the Ottoman (Smyrna and Aidin) and Varna railways. It may be interesting to your readers to know that the Turkish Government is now a debtor to the former unfortunate company to the amount of 256,593 11s 8d to the 31st December last. For rather less than half this sum mandates have been received, and when due not paid. The amount due for the Varna Railway Company to the 31st December is 256,593 2s 6d.
The above facts, no doubt, will be useful to intending investors in the projected Turkish loan.
We are sir, your obedient servants
Charles Bowyer, 193, Piccadilly
W.F. Teevan, 10 Portman Sq.,
The following is from the committee of the Turkish Bondholders of the loan of 1862:-
The committee of the Turkish Bondholders 1862 have received advices from Constantinople from Mr. L. Walter Courtenay, that on the 30th ult., the chief dragoman, on behalf of Her Majesty’s Ambassador, presented to his Highness Anli Pasha, Grand Vizier, Mr. C.S. Hanson, Mr. FREDERICK HEALD and Mr. Courtenay, the English members for the syndicate for the loan. Mr. Hanson stated to his Highness the object of their mission, and wound up by saying “that had this mission been in the remotest degree hostile to the interests of the Government he would never have allowed his name to appear as a member of the Syndicate. His Highness replied that it was always the desire of the Imperial Ottoman Government strictly to fulfil its engagements, and that he trusted matters would proceed satisfactorily, and that we should meet with no difficulties on the part of the Minister of Finance, to whom he would speak, and that he would arrange a meeting, if possible, for Saturday”.
London Gazette Issue 24247 published on the 21 September 1875. Page 29
In Her Britannic Majesty’s Supreme Consular Court,
Constantinople
The Bankruptcy Act 1869
In the Matter of Proceedings for Liquidation by Arrangement or Composition with Creditors, Instituted by THOMAS TODD, FREDERICK HEALD, JOSEPH HEALD, and WILLIAM MATHWIN, trading at Constantinople, under the style or firm of HEALD, MATHWIN, TODD and Co., Steamship Agents and Commission Merchants.
A SECOND General Meeting of the above named persons is hereby summoned to be held at No. 2, Rue de la Banque, Galata, Constantinople aforesaid, on Wednesday, the 29th day of September instant, at eleven o’clock in the morning. A majority in number and value of the creditors then assembled may confirm the resolution come to at the First General Meeting, or a majority in number, representing three fourths in value of such creditors, may by resolution declare that the affairs of the above named persons may be liquidated by arrangement - Dated this 8th day of September, 1875.
F. HEALD, for Self and Partners.
Frederick died 28 July 1884 Kadikeui, Turkey.
The Story of Hoyland and Heald families of Constantinople and his descendants by Jocelyn Norden, 2011
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Two letters held at the British Museum, Charles William Hoyland, addressed to Florence Nightingale.