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Studied Medicine And Later: ROLPH, rolf, John, Canadian politician and physician: b. Thornbury, England, March 4, 1793; d. Mitchell, Ontario, Canada, Oct. 19, 1870. He studied medicine and later law and medicine, emigrated to Canada in 1812, and in 1821 was called to the bar. He engaged in law practice and later also practiced medicine. He served in the Assembly of Upper Canada from 1824 to 1837. With William Lyon Mackenzie (1795-1861) he planned the insurrection of 1837 and upon its failure sought safety in the United States. After the amnesty of 1843 he returned to Canada and sat in the Canadian Parliament from 1845 until his retirement from politics in 1857. He afterward devoted himself to the practice of medicine and founded the Peoples' School of Medicine, which later became a faculty of the University of Toronto.
RECORDE, rek'ord, Robert, English math-ematican: b. Tenby, Pembroke, about 1510; d. London, 1558. He studied medicine and later at Oxford, was elected to a fellowship of All Souls' in 1531, studied medicine and later, and probably taught, mathematics and medicine at Cambridge, and later was instructor in a variety of subjects at Oxford. Having gone to London, he became, it is said, physician to Edward VI and Queen Mary. In 1551 he was made general surveyor of the mines and money; but despite this post seems to have been imprisoned for debt in King's Bench prison, where he certainly died.
QUAIN, SIR Richard, British physician, cousin of Jones and Richard Quain (qq.v.) : b. Mallow, County Cork, Ireland, Oct. 30, 1816; d. London, England, March 13, 1898. He studied medicine and later medicine in University College, London, whence he was graduated in 1840. He was elected a member of the Royal College of Physicians in 1846 and he was president of the General Medical Council from 1891 (when he was created a baronet) until his death. His practice in London was large and lucrative and besides publishing several medical treatises he edited a well-known Dictionary of Medicine (1882; 3d ed., 1902). |
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