John Langdon Haydon Down
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| John Langdon Haydon Down MD, MRCP Lond. | |||||||||||||
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| Born | 1828 | ||||||||||||
| Died | 1896 | ||||||||||||
| Residence |
Earlswood Asylum, Red Hill London Hospital Medical College, 39 Welbeck-street, W [1869] 81 Harley Street, W. [1883] | ||||||||||||
| Occupation |
medical academic | ||||||||||||
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Office Notes
ASL Council 1867 Member
ASL Council 1869 Member
House Notes
spelt Downe in A3
Prof. of Materia Medica and Therapeutics, London Hospital Medical College
death noted in report of the council for 1896
Notes From Elsewhere
John Langdon Haydon Down, DS (18 November 1828 – 7 October 1896) was a British physician best known for his description of a relatively common genetic disorder that is now called Down syndrome.
Member of the Athenaeum Club from 1882