Down, John Langdon Haydon Langdon- (1828–1896), physician and expert in mental science, was born in Torpoint, Cornwall, on 18 November 1828, the youngest of seven children (three daughters and four sons) of Joseph Almond Down (d. 1853), apothecary, and his wife, Hanna Haydon...
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Down, John Langdon Haydon Langdon- (1828–1896), physician and expert in mental science
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Todd, Robert Bentley (1809–1860), physician and physiologist, was born in Dublin on 9 April 1809, the second son of Charles Hawkes Todd (1782–1826), professor of anatomy and surgery at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, and his wife, Eliza Bentley (1786–1862), daughter of a colonel in the Indian army. His father was a distinguished surgeon and teacher, an editor of the ...
