William Auchinleck

William Auchinleck (19 May 1787 - 27 December 1848)[2] was the president of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) in 1829.[3]

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


W. Auchinleck was born in Dublin on the 19th May, 1787. On the 6th August, 1802, Auchinleck was indentured to Gerard Macklin, and commenced his studies at the College of Surgeons and Mercer's Hospital. On the 23rd June, 1810, he became a licentiate, and on the 7th April a member of the College. He was appointed a Surgeon to Mercer's Hospital, in which institution, about the year 1842, he successfully removed the inferior' maxillary bone, the patient making a good recovery; this was the first occasion upon which this operation was performed in Dublin. Auchinleck was Lecturer on Surgery in the Dublin School of Medicine. He died, suddenly, on the 27th December, 1848, and was interred in St. Michan's churchyard.[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. 387.
  3. RCSI Presidents since its foundation in 1784. Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, 2015. Retrieved 21 June 2018.
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