Sir William Bartlett Dalby FRCS (1840 - 1918) was a British aural surgeon and otologist, who was knighted in 1886 and made a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1870.[1][2]
William Bartlett Dalby | |
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 1888 Vanity Fair caricature by Spy | |
| Born | 10 December 1840 |
| Died | 29 December 1918 London |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation(s) | Aural surgeon and otologist |
| Known for | Lectures on Diseases and Injuries of the Ear |
After being educated at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, Dalby became consulting ear surgeon to St George's Hospital. In 1894–1895 he was president of the Medical Society.[2] He was in 1899–1901 the first president of the Otological Society of the United Kingdom, which in 1907 amalgamated with the Royal Society of Medicine to became the Section of Otology.[3][4]
His great-granddaughter was the English novelist Mary Wesley.[5][6]
References
edit- ^ Dalby, Sir William – Biographical entry – Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Online
- ^ a b "Dalby, Sir William Bartlett". Who's Who. Vol. 59. 1907. p. 434.
- ^ "Past Presidents of the Otological Society". Transactions of the Otological Society of the United Kingdom. Vol. 8. 1907. p. iv.
- ^ Hunting, Penelope (2002). "7. The first sections of the society". The History of The Royal Society of Medicine. London: Royal Society of Medicine Press. pp. 275–285. ISBN 1853154970.
- ^ Patrick Marnham. "Siepmann [née Farmar], Mary Aline [other married name Mary Aline Eady, Lady Swinfen; pseud. Mary Wesley]". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/88714. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 107th edition, vol. 3, ed. Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 2003, p. 3868
