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'''James Cowles Prichard'''
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ESL Council 1845-46 Vice President<br />ESL Council 1846-47 President<br />ESL Council 1847-48 President<br />ESL Council 1848-49 President [died Dec. 1848]
=== House Notes ===
Corresponding member of the Institute of France <br /><br />1846.05.23 Admiral Sir Charles Malcolm having expressed his determination to resign as President of the Society, & Samuel Duckworth Esq. as Treasurer of the Society, it was Resolved that James Cowles Prichard MD be requested to allow his name to be put in nomination at the Anniversary Meeting on the 29th instant as President, & Sir James Clark Bart MD as the Treasurer of the Society; that Admiral Sir Charles Malcolm & Lord Francis Egerton MP be requested in the same manner to be put in nomination as Vice Presidents in the room of His Grace the Archbishop of Dublin & James Cowles Prichard MD. Resolved that the following Gentlemen be requested to allow their names to be put in nomination at the forthcoming Anniversary as members of Council: The Archbishop of Dublin, William Ogilby Esq., MD, Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick, William Twining MD, Rev. Frederick William Hope, Thomas Southwood Smith MD, Samuel Duckworth Esq.<br /><br />1849.01.18 Death announced <br /><br />1856.05.28 Mrs Prichard, the widow of Dr Prichard, has presented a companion lithograph also handsomely framed and glazed, of her deceased husband, who died President of the Society. This also adorns the library [STILL HAVE THIS]<br /><br />see also 1908 Presidential address by Cunningham
=== Notes From Elsewhere ===
James Cowles Prichard, MD, FRS (11 February 1786 – 23 December 1848) was an English physician and ethnologist. His influential Researches into the Physical History of Mankind touched upon the subject of evolution. He was also the first person to name senile dementia
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