James Kerin

James Kerin (c. 1779 – 17 March 1848)[2] was an Irish physician who was the president of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) in 1833.[3]

"The College of Surgeons, Dublin". 1837.[1]


In 1806 Kerin was indentured to Peter Harkan, and later obtained the licence of the RCSI in 1813 and he was elected a member in 1815. For many years he acted as surgeon to the General Post Office, and in 1836, on the institution of the Irish Constabulary, he was appointed surgeon to that force.


Kerin worked at the Dublin General Dispensary. The dispensary had been established in 1785 under the patronage of the Duke of Leinster and Lord Donoughmore, acting as President and Vice-President respectively. It was funded by voluntary subscription.  Doctors, unlike the apothecaries in the Dublin dispensaries would not have received pay.  Kerin remained at the dispensary for most of his working life and retired from the Dispensary in 1841. He remained as consulting surgeon there until not long before his death.[4] He died from pneumonia, at the Constabulary Barracks, Phoenix Park, on the 17th March, 1848, aged 68.[2]


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References
  1. Dublin delineated in twenty-six views, etc. Dublin: G. Tyrrell, 1837. p. 49.
  2. Cameron, Sir Charles A. (1886) History of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, and of the Irish Schools of Medicine &c Dublin: Fannin & Co. p. 389.
  3. RCSI Presidents since its foundation in 1784. Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, 2015. Retrieved 21 June 2018.
  4. Turner, Sylvia (17 August 2018). "Guest post: Surgeon James Kerin (1779-1848) - Part II". RCPI Heritage Centre Blog. Royal College of Physicians of Ireland. Retrieved 16 October 2019.
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