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Arnott, Neil (1788–1874), physician and public health reformer  

Bill Luckin

Arnott, Neil (1788–1874), physician and public health reformer, the son of William Arnott, a manufacturer and farmer, and his wife, Ann Maclean, was born at Arbroath in Forfarshire, Scotland, on 15 May 1788. A Roman Catholic by upbringing, he was educated by his mother, at the parish school of ...

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Hastings, Sir Charles (1794–1866), physician and founder of the British Medical Association  

P. W. J. Bartrip

Hastings, Sir Charles (1794–1866), physician and founder of the British Medical Association, was born on 11 January 1794 at a lodging house in Ludlow, Shropshire, the ninth of the fifteen children of James Hastings (1755–1856), Church of England rector, and his wife, Elizabeth, ...

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MacAlister, Sir Donald, first baronet (1854–1934), physician and medical administrator  

A. J. Crilly

MacAlister, Sir Donald, first baronet (1854–1934), physician and medical administrator, was born at Earls Dykes East, Perth, on 17 May 1854, the second of the ten children (six boys and four girls) of Donald or Daniel MacAlister (1825–1881), and his wife, Euphemia (...

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Parkes, Edmund Alexander (1819–1876), physician and hygienist  

Mark Harrison

Parkes, Edmund Alexander (1819–1876), physician and hygienist, was born in Bloxham, Oxfordshire, on 29 March 1819, one of the sons of William (1788–1840) and Frances Parkes, née Byerley (1786–1842) [see under Byerley, Maria], of Warwick. His father was a textile manufacturer and his mother, the daughter of ...