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Jun 21, 1776 Died on 29 Aug 1829 (aged 53)
surgeon, medical author
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About William Wadd
- William Wadd (21 June 1776 – 29 August 1829) was a 19th-century British surgeon and medical author. Wadd, the eldest son of Solomon Wadd (d.
- 1821), a surgeon, who lived and practised for more than half a century in Basinghall Street, London, was born on 1776, and was entered at Merchant Taylor’s school late in 1784.
- He was an apprentice to Sir James Earle in 1797, and thus became one of the privileged class of surgeon’s pupils at St Bartholomew's Hospital.
- He was admitted a member of the Royal College of Surgeons on 18 December 1801, and in 1816 he contested the post of assistant-surgeon to St Bartholomew’s Hospital when John Painter Vincent was elected.
- He was chosen a member of the College of Surgeons of England in 1824, and was appointed a member of the court of examiners in succession to John Abernethy on 3 August 1829.
- He was appointed one of the surgeons extraordinary to George IV on 30 March 1821. He was killed instantaneously on 29 August 1829 in Killarney, Kerry in by jumping off a runaway carriage on the road from Killarney to Mitchelstown while he was making a holiday tour in the south of Ireland.
- At the time of his death he was a fellow of the Linnean Society of London, and an associate of the Société de Médecine of Paris. A man of high talents, Wadd had a rich fund of anecdote.
- He was an excellent draughtsman, and learnt etching to such good effect that the illustrations in his own works are all the products of his own needle.
- He married on 5 July 1806, Caroline Mackenzie, who survived him and by her had two children — a son who was drowned at Mauritius in March 1828, and a daughter. A life-size half-length in oils, painted by John Jackson, was in the secretary’s office at the Royal College of Surgeons in Lincoln’s Inn Fields [c.
- 1900].
