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William Bartlett Dalby

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William Bartlett Dalby
1888 Vanity Fair caricature by Spy
Born10 December 1840
Died29 December 1918
London
NationalityBritish
Occupation(s)Aural surgeon and otologist
Known forLectures on Diseases and Injuries of the Ear

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]

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

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  1. ^ Dalby, Sir William – Biographical entry – Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Online
  2. ^ a b "Dalby, Sir William Bartlett". Who's Who. Vol. 59. 1907. p. 434.
  3. ^ "Past Presidents of the Otological Society". Transactions of the Otological Society of the United Kingdom. Vol. 8. 1907. p. iv.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ 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.)
  6. ^ Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 107th edition, vol. 3, ed. Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 2003, p. 3868
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