Resource Name:
Resource Type:
External Resource
Asset Name:
E003023 - Raleigh, Edward Ward Walter (1802 - 1865)
Title:
Raleigh, Edward Ward Walter (1802 - 1865)
Author:
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Identifier:
RCS: E003023
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2012-10-17
Subject:
Description:
Obituary for Raleigh, Edward Ward Walter (1802 - 1865), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Raleigh, Edward Ward Walter
Date of Birth:
23 November 1802
Date of Death:
22 January 1865
Occupation:
Titles/Qualifications:
MRCS February 4th 1825
FRCS (by election) August 26th 1844
Details:
Born on November 23rd, 1802; was appointed Assistant Surgeon in the Bengal Army on March 15th, 1826, and promoted to Surgeon on November 30th, 1841. He became Surgeon to the Calcutta General Hospital and Eye Infirmary, and acted in 1841 as Professor of Surgery and Clinical Surgery at the Calcutta Medical College when Assistant Surgeon C C Egerton was on furlough.
His portrait is included among Coleworthy Grant's Lithographic Sketches of Public Characters of Calcutta, 1838, etc, and he was one of the twenty-nine officers of the IMS elected FRCS on August 26th, 1844. He retired on June 1st, 1846, and died on January 22nd, 1865.
Sources:
Crawford's *History of the Indian Medical Service*, i, 273
252, 439
Rights:
Copyright (c) The Royal College of Surgeons of England
Collection:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Format:
Obituary
Format:
Asset
Asset Path:
Root/Lives of the Fellows/E003000-E003999/E003000-E003099
Media Type:
Unknown
