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E000195 - Halton, John Prince (1797 - 1873)
Title:
Halton, John Prince (1797 - 1873)
Author:
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Identifier:
RCS: E000195
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2006-02-01

2012-03-28
Description:
Obituary for Halton, John Prince (1797 - 1873), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Halton, John Prince
Date of Birth:
1797
Date of Death:
27 January 1873
Place of Death:
Grasmere, Westmorland, UK
Occupation:
Titles/Qualifications:
MRCS May 5th 1820

FRCS Dec 11th 1843 one of the original 300 Fellows
Details:
The eldest son of the Rev John Halton, MA, St Peter's, Chester; educated at the University of Edinburgh and at Guy's Hospital under Sir Astley Cooper. After Continental travel he settled in Liverpool, and in 1820 was elected Surgeon to the Royal Infirmary, an appointment he held until 1856, when he became Consulting Surgeon. In 1844 he published a pamphlet attacking the heavy mortality following operations at the Liverpool Northern Hospital, as compared with that at the Royal Infirmary during the previous twenty-two years. The reply by the Surgeons of the Northern Hospital as to the salubrity and ventilation of the building breathes a considerable spirit of deference to Halton. He caused a rule to be passed excluding the Surgeons at the Royal Infirmary from the practice of pharmacy, for a surgeon, he said, should restrict himself to cases in surgery. Further, he advocated education at universities and large centres of population. Thus, as a successor of Park and of Hanson, Halton did much to advance the reputation of surgery in Liverpool. He retired from practice in 1885 and died at Woodclose, Grasmere, Westmorland, on Jan 27th, 1873. He married in early life; his wife, a daughter of John Foster, of Liverpool, died in 1871.
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Copyright (c) The Royal College of Surgeons of England
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Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
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Obituary
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