The Birmingham Homeopathic Dispensary 1845 – 1859

A homeopathic dispensary was opened in Great Charles Street in 1845, and this was fully established by 1847,

Medical Officers: James Gibbs Blake, George Fearon, George Stevenson Knowles, Joseph Lawrence, William Parsons, Henry Robertson,

Treasurer: Henry Christian,

Honorary Secretary: Charles Corfield,

Chemist: Charles Corfield, William Headland (remedies by post),

1849 – 560 patients were seen in June 1849,

1850 – Galloway joined the Dispensary, average annual patients seen 1760,

1858 - the dispensary was funded entirely by sponsorship, fund raising, small weekly (or monthly) subscriptions, and donations from wills, notably £500 donated by E J Shirley MP of Ertington Park,

The Birmingham Homeopathic Hospital and Dispensary 1859 – 1875

Location 2, Upper Priory, Birmingham, and 11 Old Square, Birmingham,

1861 – the hospital issued The Report of the Birmingham Homeopathic Hospital & Dispensary,

1863 – the hospital remains free from debt, with anual presentations to the dispensary approximately 2500 annually,prescriptions issued around 13,500 annually, with an annual income of £4-500, mainly fron donations from sponsors and subscribers (about 160),  and from paying patients, such that the hospital is approximately one third self funding, (the accounts of the Dispensary are here – submitted by Robert Martineau as a Patron of this dispensary),

1863 – the staff of the hospital were:

Medical Officers: James Gibbs Blake, Henry Robertson,

Treasurer: Henry Christian,

Chemist: Charles Corfield,

1863 – H St. Clair Massiah was appointed as House Surgeon to the hospital,

1863 – the Hospital reported that it had seen 2146 patients in the months of January and February 1863, of which 115 paid a monthly subscription of 2/6d, 119 were admitted via subcribers, and 162 patients were visited in their own homes, (copy of another report here – prescriptions issued 13,815)

The first dental hospital in Birmingham was founded by Samuel Adams Parker in 1858 at Odd Fellows Hall, Temple Street. In 1863 it moved to the Homeopathic Hospital in Upper Priory, (in 1863 it was moved to 2, Upper Priory to premises shared with the Homeopathic Hospital)…

1865 – The Midland Homeopathic Medical Society, established 1865, met at the hospital,

1866 – Wallis was Acting House Surgeon, alongside Joseph Lawrence,

1868 – the hospital was now fully staffed as follows:

Trustees: Edwin Bullock, Robert Lucas Chance, Henry Christian, Abraham Dixon, Josiah Mason, Henry van Wart,

Treasurer: Henry Christian,

Management Committee: Thomas Adams, Edwin Bullock, E A Butler, Benjamin Head Cadbury, John Cadbury, Robert Lucas Chance, Henry Christian, Chas Felton, Rev. William Gover, Benjamin Hudson, W F James, John Jefferys, George B Lloyd, Josiah Mason, Rev. T H Morgan, Richard Sanders, John Suffield,

Staff: Frederick Flint, James Gibbs Blake, Henry R Irwin, Joseph Lawrence, Henry Robertson, Edward Wynne Thomas,

Honorary Secretary: Charles Corfield,

Chemists: Charles Corfield, George Edward Perry,

1870 – The British Homeopathic Congress met at the hospital under the Presidency of John James Drysdale,

1872 – The Midland Homeopathic Medical Society, established 1865, met at the hospital (8th session),

1873 – 19 Easy Row, Birmingham: erection of proposed homeopathic hospital  MS 1460/40  n.d. [c.1873] held at the Birmingham City Archives, submitted by W A Whitwell of Whitwell and Sons, Architects, Birmingham, employer of Yeoville Thomason,

The Birmingham Midland Hospital for Homeopathic and General Treatment 1875 – 1949

(photo of 17 – 19 Easy Row by Phyllis Nicklin in 1960 copyright Keith Berry)

Location: 19 Easy Row, Birmingham,

The Conditions of the Hospital are to charge a small weekly (or monthly) subscriptions, but also to treat the poor for free, with a large proportion of patients visited at home,

1875 – a new purpose built hospital at 19 Easy Row, Birmingham, designed by Yeoville Thomason, was opened, the land puchase cost was £7000 and the site was 1200 square yards, providing a hospital for 100 beds, starting with provision for 40 beds, renamed The Birmingham and Midland Homeopathic Hospital and Dispensary at this time, and shortly thereafter it published The Report of the Birmingham and Midland Homeopathic Hospital and Dispensary,

1889 – Harriet Martineau produced needlework to be sold for the benefit of the Birmingham Homeopathic Hospital, and her brother Robert Martineau was a Patron of this hospital, and his daughter Susan Martineau also supported the hospital,

In the mid 1900s many middle class Birmingham women became well known for their philanthropy and charitable work in the city… Susan Martineau (neice of Harriet Martineau) who helped establish a Homeopathic Hospital and worked to encourage poor people to save (money)…

1891 – Annie Andrews was Head Matron at the Birmingham Homeopathic Hospital in Easy Row,

1892 – John Wingfield LRCP, LRCS Edinburgh was Honorary Physician at the hospital,

1893 – visitors noted that the hospital was ‘flourishing’,

1895 – cases reported from the Birmingham Homeopathic Hospital were widely reported in America,

1914 – the hospital is still funded entirelyby sponsorship, fund raising, small weekly (or monthly) subscriptions, and donations from wills,

1916 – Corbett Charles Brame of 247 Selly Oak Road, Kings Norton, Birmingham died 29 April 1916 at The Homeopathic Hospital, Easy Row, Birmingham…

1948 – the Eastocte Grange Annex

By 1948, this hospital included the Eastcote Grange Annexe. By 1949 the Eastcote Grange branch was also called Midland Hospital – situated at Eastcote Grange near Hampton in Arden. This branch then took over and the Birmingham branch appears to have closed.

2007 – Archives of the hospital found at Solihull Hospital

From The Solihull News 19.9.2007: The past has been brought to life at Solihull Hospital with the discovery of some old documents dating back more than 134 years. Eagle eyed librarians uncovered the rare set of hospital records in a cupboard at the hospital during a search of the archives as part of a project by its arts team. Expenditure records, annual reports and minutes of meetings for Birmingham Homeopathic Hospital were among the records uncovered, with the earliest volume dating back to 1873. The documents are now being handed over to Birmingham City Archives where they will be catalogued and made accessible to the public…

From The British Journal of Nursing November 1927: Ms. A E Wimblett SRN has been appointed Lady Superintendant at the Birmingham Homeopathic Hospital  and Dispensary…

1976 – the minute books 1858 – 1930 of the Birmingham Homeopathic Hospital and Dispensary were added to the National Register of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts,

The People involved with the Birmingham Homeopathic Hospital and Dispensary

Thomas Adams 1807 – 1873

was a British philanthropist, Justice of the Peace, lace maker and a banker in his later years, who was on the Provisional Committee of Lloyds Bank of Birmingham, First Chairman of the Nottingham Joint Stock Bank, and on the Management Committee of the Birmingham Homeopathic Hospital,

As a lacemaker, it is possible that Thomas Adams may well have known Jean Barthelemy Arles Dufour and William Leaf, who were so influential in the introduction of homeopathy into Britain,

James Gibbs Blake 1833 – 1900

BA, MD, MB 1854, MB 1856, winner of a 1854 and 1856 Gold Medal Award from University College Medical College, was an orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy to become the Physician at the Taunton Homeopathic Dispensary, the Wolverhampton Homeopathic Dispensary, Physician at the Birmingham Homeopathic Hospital, the Editor of the Monthly Homeopathic Review, member of the Northern Homeopathic Medical Association, member of the British Homeopathic Society, General Secretary to the British Homeopathic Congress in 1882, Vice President of the Midland Homeopathic Society, Chair of the Midland Chemists Association, member of the Royal Sanitary Institute,

James Gibbs Blake was the homeopathic practitioner and Trustee of the Sir Josiah Mason Orphanage alongside Edward Wynne Thomas, and he was also the President, Chairman of the Trustee and the Chairman of the Council of the Mason Science College in Birmingham, and a Co Founder and Vice President of the University of Birmingham,

James Gibbs Blake was the homeopathic physician of Josiah Mason,

Edwin Bullock ?1802 – 1870

was an ironfounder or ironmaster, spring loader hinge maker, and noted art collector, and a Trustee and on the Management Committee of the Birmingham Homeopathic Hospital, and a Trustee of a Harmsworth School in Birmingham,

E A Butler ?1802 – ?1886

was a British Clothier, art collector and dealer who was on the Management Committee of the Birmingham Homeopathic Hospital, on the Management Committee of the Royal Birmingham and Midland Counties Art Union, a staunch Baptist, E A Butler was a Sponsor of Missionaries to India,E A Butler brought and commissioned art from David Cox, as did his colleague Edwin Bullock,

Benjamin Head Cadbury ?1804 – ?1897

brother of John Cadbury , was also on the Management Committee of the Birmingham Homeopathic Hospital,

John Cadbury 1801 – 1889

brother of Benjamin Head Cadbury, he was proprietor of a small chocolate business in Birmingham, England, that later became part of Cadbury plc, one of the world’s largest chocolate producers.

John Cadbury was on the Management Committee, and paid for and built the Birmingham Homeopathic Hospital in Cambridge Street, and he also manufactured Homeopathic Cocoa (Homeopathic Cocoa was so named because it contained arrowroot, but it actually had no connection to homeopathy in essence, but ‘homeopathy’ was such a popular term at this time, it would sell anything! Homeopathic Cocoa was ‘renowned for its supposed medicinal qualities’),

John Cadbury also campained against alcohol, and he led a campaign to ban the use of child labour for sweeping chimneys and campaigned against animal cruelty, forming the Animals Friend Society, a forerunner of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

Robert Lucas Chance 1782 – 1865

Chance Brothers and Company was a glassworks originally based in Spon Lane, Smethwick, West Midlands (formerly in Staffordshire), in England. It was a leading glass manufacturer and a pioneer of British glassmaking technology.

Robert Lucas Chance was a Founder, Sponsor and Trustee, and on the Management Committee of the Birmingham Homeopathic Hospital,

Robert Lucas Chance supplied optical glass to Charles Darwin,

Chance Brothers and Company was “… the greatest glass manufacturer in Britain”, who were responsible for the glazing of the original Crystal Palace to house the Great Exhibition of 1851, and the Houses of Parliament, and they made the opal glass for the four faces of the Westminster Clock Tower which house the famous bell, Big Ben. The ornamental windows for the White House in America were also made by them.

Through twists and turns, at one time being part of the Pilkington Group, Chance Glass Limited is still a successful company today, retaining the historical Chance logo.

Henry Christian ?1807 – ?1891

was a Solicitor and an Attorney, Auditor of Lloyds Bank and the Birmingham Banking Company, Director of the Midland Financial Company, and the Treasurer and a Trustee at the Birmingham Homeopathic Hospital,

Charles Corfield 1819 – 1890

was a British homeopathic chemist at 26, Bennetts Hill, Birmingham, and at the Birmingham Homeopathic Hospital and Dispensary,Charles Corfield’s brother Richard Corfield, attended Shrewsbury School with Charles Darwin, and Charles Darwin stayed in his home in Valparaiso in 1834 and in 1835,

Abraham Dixon junior 1820 – 1900

was a British manufacturer at Abraham Dixon and Co, and the Director and Principle Partner of Rabone Brothers, who travelled frequently to Brussels, and became a most wealthy merchant, Abraham Dixon junior was a Trustee of the Birmingham Homeopathic Hospital, and a sponsor of the Birmingham Royal Institution for the Blind,

Abraham Dixon junior was also a prizewinning pig breeder, and horticulturalist, and it is possible he knew the family of Edwin Bullock at the local Farmer’s fairs, where the Bullock family also exhibited Game Fowl, Abraham Dixon junior also submitted lunation returns to the House of Commons, an interest he shared with his friend, homeopath James Johnstone,

John James Drysdale 1816 – 1890

MD Edin. 1816 – 1890 elder brother of Charles Robert Drysdale and the editor of the British Journal of Homeopathy.John James Drysdale was a student of James Young Simpson in Edinburgh, alongside Thomas Skinner, and he also knew William Henderson.

The Drysdales were friends of Catharine Crowe and familiar with the social circle of the day which included Charles Dickens and Charles Darwin. John Chapman who edited the Westminster Review, and in 1841, a Dr. (John?) Chapman and John James Drysdale opened the Liverpool Homeopathic Dispensary at 14 Benson Street.

George Fearon 1817 – 1861

MD Edin 1838, MRSCE Giessen 1840, was a British orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy and who was the first homeopath to practice in Birmingham at the Birmingham Homeopathic Dispensary, and whose efforts raised the finances for the Midland Homeopathic Hospital.

George Fearon was a member of the British Homeopathic Society and also Secretary to the British Homeopathic Congress.

Charles Felton ?1805 – ?1879

was a British manufacturer, floricultiralist, prize winning cock breeder and pig breeder, supporter of Temperance, and a supporter of the Old Crown Public House at Der Yat End (Deritend), a sponsor of missionaries, and a member of the Management Committee of the Birmingham Homeopathic Hospital,

Frederick Flint ?1839 – ?1893

MD, CM Aberdeen, MRCS England 1866, was a British orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy to become a House Surgeon at the Birmingham Homeopathic Hospital, and a Dispensing Chemist at the Wolverhampton and Stafford Homeopathic Dispensary, and he also worked at the Scarborough Homeopathic Dispensary,

Rev. William Gover ?1805 – ?1886

MA Cabridge, was a British parish priest, Honorary Canon at the Cathedral Church of Worcester, at St. Andrews in Holborn, at Somerstown Chapel in London, Principal of the Worcester Diocesan Training College, Principal of the Normal Training School in Saltey in Birmingham (for the training of Masters for Elementary Schools), member of the Committee of Council on Education, member of Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, member of the Egypt Exploration Society, Fellow of the Geological Society of London, member of the National Society for Promoting the Education of the Poor in the Principles of the Established Church, member of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science, Chairman and member of various other Associations and Parliamentary Committees, prizewinning duck breeder, and member of the Management Committee of the Birmingham Homeopathic Hospital,

Rev. William Gover was eager to support the Birmingham Homeopathic Hospital, as he had sent hundreds of people to the homeopathic dispensary in the in the sixteen years he had lived in Birmingham,

Benjamin Hudson 1796 – 1875

was a British printer, stationer and bookseller, the ‘oldest bookshop in Birmingham’ (established 1821 – he spent 54 years in one shop), operating as B Hudson and Son from 18 Bull Street in Birmingham, member of the Committee at the Spring Hill College in Birmingham, was on the Management Committee of the Birmingham Homeopathic Hospital,B Hudson and Son published The Philanthropist – first published as The Reformer), which operated only for four years, and which produced copies for private circulation only, but which became influential enough to voice the mood for social change at that time,

B Hudson and Son also printed books and pamphlets by John Angell James, Robert Owen, Joseph Sturge, books produced by the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science founded by Henry Brougham 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, works promoting abolitionism, emancipation, labour relations, temperance, and many other liberal causes of the day,

Henry R Irwin ?1834 – ?1902

LFPS Glasgow 1861, was a British orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy to become a Surgeon at the Birmingham Homeopathic Hospital, a member of the Midland Homeopathic Society, a Medical Officer at the Caledonian Fire and Life Insurance Company,

W F James ?1806 – ?1887

was a British Auditor, member of the Committee at the Spring Hill College in Birmingham, Secretary of the The Bible Christian magazine, and a member of the Management Committee of the Birmingham Homeopathic Hospital, W F James wrote Seven years’ pioneer mission work in Cardiff,

John Jefferys ?1816 – ?1888

was a British Barrister (Lincoln’s Inn 1835),  on the Management Committee of the Birmingham Homeopathic Hospital, John Jefferys lived at 39 Waterloo Street, Birmingham,

George Stevenson Knowles 1820 – 1861

LRCGP Belfast, MD Edinburgh 1851, the second son of James Sheridan Knowles, and the brother of Richard Brinsley Knowles, was a British orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy, Physician at the Birmingham Homeopathic Hospital,

Joseph Lawrence ?1814 – ?1873

was a homeopath at the Birmingham Homeopathic Hospital, the Wolverhampton and Stafford Homeopathic Dispensary, and at The Birmingham Homeopathic Dispensary,

George B Lloyd 1824 – 1903

was a British Banker at Lloyds Bank of Birmingham, a Sponsor of the Birmingham General Hospital, Sponsor of the Queen’s Hospital, and on the Management Committee of the Birmingham Homeopathic Hospital,

George B Lloyd was a member of a Quaker family, the brother of Sampson Samuel Lloyd junior MP 1820 – 1899, and the cousin of James Lloyd 1806 – 1863 and Thomas Lloyd 1814 – 1890, who were all Sponsors of various Birmingham Charities and Hospitals, (Sampson Samuel Lloyd was an auditor of the Birmingham General Hospital alongside homeopath William Sharp, the President of the Midland Homeopathic Society in 1866), and as members of Lloyds Bank of Birmingham, this family was quite central to life in this City at this time.

Harriet Martineau 1802 – 1876 and her brother Robert Martineau

was an English writer and philosopher, renowned in her day as a controversial journalist, political economist, abolitionist and life long feminist.Harriet Martineau was an ardent supporter of homeopathy, and she was also a patient of John Elliotson.

Harriet Martineau’s life was changed forever when she received treatment from Mersmerist Spencer Timothy Hall.

Harriet Martineau produced needlework to be sold for the benefit of the Birmingham Homeopathic Hospital, and her brother Robert Martineau was a Patron of this hospital, and his daughter Susan Martineau helped establish the Birmingham Homeopathic Hospital and worked to encourage poor people to save (money)…

Harriet Martineau knew Charlotte Bronte, Florence Nightingale and Mary Fairfax Greig Somerville, and she was part of a social set which included Charles Babbage, Thomas Carlyle, publisher John Chapman, Moncure Daniel Conway, Charles Darwin and his brother Erasmus Alvey Darwin, Charles Dickens, John Elliotson, George Everest and his brother, homeopath Thomas Roupell Everest, Robert Everest (?brother of George Everest and Thomas Roupell Everest, a geographer who lived in India), Thomas Henry Huxley, Charles Lyell, and James John Garth Wilkinson.

Harriet Martineau was a fervent supporter of Florence Nightingale and actively supported her friend in her work. Harriet Martineau was an enthusiastic advocate of homeopathy, telling Florence Nightingale in 1860,

“I am much further in approbation of homeopathy (than you are), (having watched it for twenty three years) “I am as sure as I can be of anything future that it will supercede any other principle and method yet known.”

Harriet also tells Florence Nightingale that the Town Council in Liverpool has voted money for homeopathic dispensaries, which had eased the ‘dreadful paucity’ of qualified practitioners there.

Josiah Mason 1795 – 1881

was an English pen manufacturer, Philanthropist, Trustee and member of the Management Committee, and major sponsor of the Birmingham Homeopathic Hospital, and the Co-founder of the Mason Science College in Birmingham, which evolved into the University of Birmingham,

On 12.12.1870, James Gibbs Blake, Josiah Mason and George James Johnson executed the Foundation Deed of the University of Birmingham:

Josiah Mason was a patient of James Gibbs Blake and Edward Wynne Thomas…

In 1858 Josiah Mason opened almshouses in Station Road, Erdington, Birmingham, for spinsters and widows over 50 and orphan girls, providing accommodation in furnished rooms 14ft x 11ft with coal, gas and a small annual income provided.

These premises proving inadequate to the purpose, in 1869 a second, larger orphanage was opened in Bell Lane (now Orphanage Road), Erdington, with rooms for 26 women and dormitories for 300 children.

The health of the children was placed under the care of two homeopathic practitioners James Gibbs Blake (trustee) and Edward Wynne Thomas).

Rev. T H Morgan ?1812 – ?1872

was a British Baptist Minister, at Harrow on the  Hill in Middlesex, Secretary and Minister of the Baptist Association in Birmingham, the Principal of the Birmingham Scholastic Institution for the Sons of Ministers, Principal of the Shireland Hall School, member of the British and Irish Baptist home mission, member of the Society for the liberation of religion from State patronage and control, and on the Management Committee of the Birmingham Homeopathic Hospital,Rev. T H Morgan was a supporter of John Bright, and an abolitionist,

William Parsons 1804 – 1872

MRCS, MD was a British orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy, to become a physician at the Birmingham Homeopathic Dispensary, the Canterbury Homeopathic Dispensary, and the Dover Homeopathic Dispensary, William Parsons was a Resident Physician at a small hospital at Paul Francois Curie’s house,

George Edward Perry ?1802 – ?1879

was a British homeopathic chemist who practiced at 171 Hagley Road, Edgebaston, Birmingham, and at 6 Norwood Villas, Edgbaston, Birmingham,

Henry Robertson ?1801 – ?1879

LSA London 1828, was a British orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy, to become the Vice President of the Midland Homeopathic Medical Society, a Medical Officer at the Birmingham Homeopathic Hospital, member of the British Homeopathic Society, member of the Westminster Medical Society, member of the Hahnemannian Medical Society,

Richard Sanders ?1815 – ?1876

was a British Cooper in 1850, a toy dealer in 1861, and thereafter an Agent, specifically a Tin and Copper Smelter’s Agent (to William Forster and Co), and on the Management Committee of the Birmingham Homeopathic Hospital,

John Suffield 1802 – 1891

was a British Laceman and Lace Dealer, Hosier, Glover and Carpet Warehouseman, Sponsor of the Blue Coat School in Birmingham, and on the Management Committee of the Birmingham Homeopathic Hospital,

John Suffield was the great grandfather of J R R Tolkien (by marriage),

Yeoville Thomason 1826 – 1901

was an architect in Birmingham, England. He was born in Edinburgh to a Birmingham family. Thomason set up his own practice in Birmingham 1853-1854. He was a grandson of Sir Edward Thomason, a button and toy maker in Birmingham. He was a pupil of Charles Edge, and after qualifying as architect he worked for the borough surveyor. He designed the Council House after winning a competition. He retired in 1896.

Thomason’s connections within the City soom provided him with regular work, and between 1874 and 1884 he was almost continuously engaged on the construction of the Council House and the first extension to it, comprising the Art Gallery and the Gas Department.

From soon after he had qualified he managed the architectural department of the borough surveyor’s office, and public architecture was well suited to his taste for rather florid Italianate design.

Towards the end of his career he became architect to the Birmingham, Dudley & District Banking Co., and the collection contains designs for several banks in and around the West Midlands.

Cooper Whitwell was in practice at 40 Bennetts Hill by 1883, but not until 1887 do the names Thomason & Whitwell appear linked in partnership: they moved in the same year to 1 Cannon St. Whitwell seems to have undertaken almost all the firm’s work, however, and Thomason went into retirement.

He died in London in 1901.

Whitwell dropped the pretence of a partnership in 1894, and by 1899 the firm had become C Whitwell & Son., which it remained until its dissolution in 1953: latterly the partners were William A. Whitwell and Arthur W. Whitwell.

From 1899 it was based at 23 Temple Row, by 1923 it had moved to 9 Newhall St and in the following year it moved again to 3 Newhall St.

In 1952 the Whitwell brothers apparently abandoned their town office and continued the practice from their home address, Newborough House, Newborough Road, Shirley, for a further year.

Henry van Wart 1784 – 1873

an American (Dutch by descent) who became British by special act of Parliament, founded the Birmingham Stock Exchange, he was a Magistrate, and served as one of Birmingham’s first Aldermen and a director of the Birmingham Banking Company.Henry van Wart was a Trustee of the Birmingham Homeopathic Hospital, and the brother in law of Washington Irving,

Edward Wynne Thomas ?1830 – 1893

MRCS England 1857, MB University of London 1858 Gold Medalist, LSA London 1858, was a British orthodox physician, Surgeon at the South Stafford General Hospital, who converted to homeopathy, to become a Physician at the Wolverhampton and Stafford Homeopathic Dispensary, a Surgeon at the Birmingham Homeopathic Hospital, the President of the British Homeopathic Society, Honorary Secretary of the Midland Homeopathic Medical Society,

Edward Wynne Thomas was a homeopathic practitioner at the Sir Josiah Mason Orphanage,

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Charles Corfield 1819 – 1890 was a British homeopathic chemist at 26, Bennetts Hill, Birmingham, and at the Birmingham Homeopathic Hospital and Dispensary,

Charles Corfield’s brother Richard Corfield, attended Shrewsbury School with Charles Darwin, and Charles Darwin stayed in his home in Valparaiso in 1834 and in 1835,

Established in 1846, Chemist to the Birmingham Homeopathic Hospital and Dispensary, Prepares all the Medicines used under Homeopathic Treatment. Homeopathic Medicines in Tinctures, Globules, Pilules, and Triturations, supplied in the greatest Purity.

Charles Corfield died at Great Malvern, and his Obituary is in The British homoeopathic review, Volume 34,

Charles Corfield wrote Reasons for adopting homeopathic treatment in the diseases of animals (1859),

Of interest:

Richard Corfield 1810 – 1885, brother of Charles Corfield, attended Shrewsbury School with Charles Darwin, where he was engaged in trading or shipping business at Valparaiso, where he married Thereza Gonzales, a Columbian woman,

Letter 248 — Charles Darwin to Darwin, E. C., 20–9 July 1834: Valparaiso is a sort of London or Paris, to any place we have been to.— it is most disagreeable to be obliged to shave & dress decently.—

We shall stay here two months, instead of going North-ward, during which time the ship will be refitted & all hands refreshed. You cannot imagine how delightfull the climate feels to all of us, so dry, warm & cheerful: it is not here as in T. del Fuego where one fine day, makes one fear the next will be twice as bad as usual.—

The scenery wears such a different aspect, I can sit on the hills & watch the setting sun brighten the Andes, as at Barmouth we used to look at Cader-Idris.— The time of year, being now winter, is very unfortunate for me, it is quite hopeless to penetrate the Cordilleras; There is a mountain, near here, at Quillota, 4700 feet high.

I am going in a few days to try to ascend it; I fear however the snow will be too thick. R. Corfield is living here, I cannot tell you how very obliging & kind he is to me.— He has a very nice house & before long I am going on shore to pay him a visit; he presses me most good naturedly to make his house my headquarters.—

Letter 254 — Charles Darwin to FitzRoy, Robert, [28 Aug 1834]: Corfield took me to dine with a Mr  Kennedy, who talks much about the Adventure & Beagle; he says he saw you at Chiloe…

Letter 263 — Charles Darwin to Henslow, J. S., 8 Nov 1834: if you know any person in Liverpool who would post your letters to me by any of the numerous ships to this port I should receive them a couple of months sooner.— in this case, they must be directed to the care of R. Corfield Esqr…

Letter 275 — Charles Darwin to Darwin, S. E., 23 Apr 1835: I arrived at this place a week since, & am as before living with Corfield. I have found him as kind &  good-natured a friend as he is a good man…

Do mention to Mr Corfield of Pitchford, under what obligations I lie to his son…. Corfield cashes the bill & sends it to his Father, who will bring it to the old Bank, where I suppose it can be transacted…

Corfield and Corfield Homeopathic Pharmacy in Birmingham closed in the 1960s:

In 1851, Charles Corfield was an agent for the sale of the Hahnemann Soap Tablet, manufactured by John Parton Berry, Perfumer in Ordinary to Queen Victoria,

In 1890, upon the death of Charles Corfield, Corfield and Corfield was carried on by his nephew Edward Corfield,

From the The Pharmaceutical Journal Vol 269 No 7228 p872-874 14 December 2002: I first met Dennis Bagshaw when I moved from the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital, Oswestry, to take up the post of staff pharmacist (production) at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital in 1979.

Dennis taught me most of what I know about radiopharmacy. Not only was he a great teacher and mentor, he had the ability to make the experience fun. I shall never forget the twinkle in his eye and his sometimes mischievous nature.

Dennis also had a way with computers and in the days of the first steam driven personal computers, Dennis wrote a program that calculated radioisotope decay. This allowed the appropriate volume of injections to be drawn up. The program also enabled the production of labels for use with these.

The fact that we are still using the program today, with only minor modification, is a great tribute to Dennis. Dennis retired in 1985 a very young 65. I remember thinking to myself at the time that he was 65 going on 24.

Dennis was a credit to the profession and will be sadly missed by his family and friends. I count myself lucky to have known him.

ROGER SKEWS, chief pharmacist at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital, writes: ‘When I first met Dennis Bagshaw in 1981, he was already well established in the second phase of his career.

Having completed his pharmacy training at Nottingham University in 1944, he had continued his studies and also qualified as an optician in 1947.

For nine years he practised as managing director of Corfield & Corfield City Homeopathic Pharmacy in Birmingham, then moved to Shrewsbury as manager of John Adams Chemists, practising there for the next 20 years.

In 1975, after recovering from a serious illness, he decided on a second phase to his career, a new challenge, and moved to the Copthorne Hospital pharmacy in Shrewsbury, rapidly gaining both new skills and promotion.

Here he developed the embryonic radiopharmacy service and when in 1977 the new Royal Shrewsbury Hospital opened, Dennis at once chose to specialise in radiopharmacy, initiating many of the new techniques and facilities required.

Hugely enthusiastic, highly intelligent and an eloquent teacher, Dennis pioneered these services throughout the hospitals in Shropshire in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

His self-taught skills as a computer programmer also enabled him to convert the complex mathematics necessary into automated programs (so elegant they are still used today).

Elected a full member of the British Nuclear Medicine Society he was a man ahead of his time.

In 1985 at 65 years of age, Dennis was far too young to retire, but his family was all important, and he did. His ever present mischievous grin, enthusiasm, and inherent concern for both colleagues and patients, endeared him to us all. I was truly privileged to work with such a shining example of the pharmaceutical profession.

Comment on Bnet blog: ‘In answer to the many letters about the ‘magic book’ said to cure warts, I used to work at a chemist’s shop near Birmingham Town Hall. It was Corfield & Corfield at 39 Bennetts Hill.

We did not have a book for recording details of people’s warts but I still have a Corfield’s book detailing common complaints and their treatment. A brown, sticky liquid called Thuja was prescribed to be painted on warts. Corfield’s was closed down in the 1960s but Thuja should be available from any chemist dealing in homeopathic remedies. SUZANNE EDWARDS Ashby de la Zouch

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Henry Robertson ?1801 – ?1879 LSA London 1828, was a British orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy, to become the Vice President of the Midland Homeopathic Medical Society, a Medical Officer at the Birmingham Homeopathic Hospital, member of the British Homeopathic Society, member of the Westminster Medical Society, member of the Hahnemannian Medical Society,

Henry Robertson was a colleague of Frederick Flint, James Gibbs Blake, Constantine Hering, Henry R Irwin, Joseph Lawrence, William Henry Mayne, John Stuart Sutherland, Edward Wynne Thomas, and many others,

Henry Robertson practiced in Ipswich, and at Victoria Buildings, Temple Row, Birmingham,

Of interest:

George Robertson MB Ch M, was a homeopath in Birmingham in 1872, and in Bristol in 1873,

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John Suffield

John Suffield was the great grandfather of J R R Tolkien (by marriage),

J R R Tolkien’s great grandfather, also John Suffield, was there from 1826 with a drapery and hosiery business.

John Suffield operated at Old Lamb House, 107 and 108 Bull Street, Birmingham, and at Union Passage, Birmingham, (for picture of Old Lamb House see the Connecting Histories web site)

From Personal Recollections of Birmingham and Birmingham Men by Eliezer Edwards 1815 – 1891:  Bull Street was then the principal street in Birmingham for retail business, and it contained some very excellent shops.

Most of the then existing names have disappeared, but a few remain. Mr. Suffield, to whose courtesy I am indebted for the loan of the rare print from which the frontispiece to this little book is copied, then occupied the premises near the bottom of the street, which he still retains.

Mr. Adkins, the druggist, carried on the business established almost a century ago. He is now the oldest inhabitant of Bull Street, having been born in the house he still occupies before the commencement of the present century.

Mr. Gargory–still hale, vigorous, and hearty, although rapidly approaching his eightieth year–then tenanted the shop next below Mr. Keirle, the fishmonger. His present shop and that of Mr. Harris, the dyer, occupy the site of the then Quakers’ Meeting House, which was a long, barn-like building, standing lengthwise to the street, and not having a window on that side to break the dreary expanse of brickwork.

Mr. Benson was in those days as celebrated for beef and civility as he is now. Mr. Page had just opened the shawl shop still carried on by his widow.

Near the Coach Yard was the shop of Benjamin Hudson, the bookseller, whose son still carries on the business established by his father in 1821. In 1837, Benjamin Hudson, Sen., was the publisher of a very well conducted liberal paper called The Philanthropist. The paper only existed some four or five years. It deserved a better fate….

Of interest;

Jane Suffield Neave 1872 – 1963, sister of Mabel Suffield Tolkein, taught J R R Tolkien geometry as a young child,

John Suffield Junior 1833 – 1930, son of John Suffield senior, was the father of Mabel Suffield Tolkein, brought up a Methodist, (Baptist according to Wikipedia) he became a Unitarian, he was a prosperous draper in Birmingham, (and as a brassfounder) but was declared bankrupt and became a Commercial Traveller for Jeyes Disinfectants,

From the Connecting Histories web site: John Suffield (junior) of Birmingham lived to the grand age of ninety seven.

He was born in Old Lamb House, Bull Street in 1833 and died in Moseley just after his birthday in September 1930.

The Suffield family had a drapery business in Old Lamb House, a half timbered building on the corner of Bull Street and High Street.

When he was born they lived above the shop. The sketch above (see the Connecting Histories web site), probably by John Suffield, accompanied an article he wrote “My Old Home” for the Central Literary Magazine in April 1887.

In the early 1840s the family moved out to Edgbaston, one of Birmingham’s new suburbs. In the mid 1850s they moved to Moseley, then still in the countryside, on one of the hills immediately to the south of Birmingham. (John Suffield junior died at Bag End, Dormston, Worcestershire in 1930),

John Suffield, ?cousin of a John Suffield senior from Evesham, Plate Maker and Engraver in 1831, (attributed as the Suffield ancestor of J R R Tolkien in Tolkien And The Great War: The Threshold Of Middle Earth by John Garth. J.R.R. Tolkien encyclopedia: scholarship and critical assessment by Michael D. C. Drout, continues:

‘Originally from Evesham in Worcestershire, they moved to Birmingham in the early 1800s and later to Edgebaston and Moseley.

From 1812, J R R Tolkien’s great, great, great uncle William Suffield owned a Birmingham book and stationary shop. Coverted to a drapery business by his brother John Suffield senior in 1826, it operated until an 1886 redevelopment plan demolished the shop.’

Joseph Suffield, ?brother of John Suffield senior, was a Victualler at Union Passage Hotel Birmingham in 1861,

Mabel Suffield Tolkien 1870 – 1904, great grandaughter of John Suffield senior, mother of J R R Tolkien:

Her parents, John Suffield and Emily Jane Sparrow, lived in Stirling Road, Birmingham and owned a shop in the city centre. The Suffield family had a business in a building called Lamb House since 1812.

From 1812 William Suffield ran a book and stationery shop there; J R R Tolkien’s great grandfather, also John Suffield senior, was there from 1826 with a drapery and hosiery business.

Mabel Suffield was born in Birmingham, one of six children of John Suffield (junior), a draper who had become a commercial traveller, and his wife Emily (nee Sparrow.) In March 1891, she sailed from Southampton to Cape Town to marry Arthur Tolkien (q.v.). Their two sons, J R R Tolkien and Hilary (1894) were born in South Africa; but, while his wife and children were on a visit to Birmingham, Arthur died of a haemorrhage, and the family remained in England.

In June 1900, Mabel and her sister May were received into the Roman Catholic Church, and her children were brought up in that faith. However, Mabel, like her husband, died young, of a diabetic coma.

Mark Oliver Suffield, ?brother of John Suffield junior, worked together as John Suffield and Co, at 1, 2 and 3 Crooked Lane, Birmingham and 29, 30 and 31 Union Passage, Birmingham, in 1885,

Mary Suffield, ?relation, was a toy maker in Birmingham in 1861,

Samuel Wilson Suffield, ?relative, Druggist in Birmingham in 1844,

Wiliam Suffield, brother of John Suffield senior, was a printer, Stationer and Paper Hanger, in Bull Street, Birmingham in 1810, (also commended for improvements to the manufactur of artificial teeth in Birmingham in 1859),

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Richard Sanders

Richard Sanders lived at 198 Hagley Road in Birmingham,

Of interest:

Richard Sanders ?senior, ?father of Richard Sanders, was a member of the Warwick Union Society, a auctioneer, timber merchant (in 1831 with Joseph Sanders), surveyor and ’self styled’ architect in 1811, who supervised the building of meeting rooms in Leamington,

Richard Sanders, ?ancestor of Richard Sanders, was a very famous bell maker in Bromsgrove in 1735,

William Forster and Co

William Foster & Co Ltd was an agricultural machinery company based at Lincoln, UK and usually just called “Fosters of Lincoln”.The company can be traced back to 1846, when William Foster purchased a flour mill in Lincoln.

William Foster then proceeded to start small scale manufacturing of mill machinery and threshing machinery. The mill was converted to an iron foundry by 1856, thus becoming the original Wellington Foundry.

During the First World War they built the first tanks for the British Army.

The company was known for producing threshing machines, regarded as among the best available. They also made traction engines, steam tractors such as the Foster Wellington and showman’s road locomotives.

Foster were briefly involved in a deal to market tractors built by Daimler in Britain but this was dropped after the war. (Little is known about the Daimler tractors which mainly were exported).Foster’s, as builders of agricultural machinery, were involved in the production and design of the prototype tanks, which were, in effect, agricultural tractors with armoured bodies.

After the First World War, The Royal Commission on Awards to Inventors decided that the inventors of the Tank were William Tritton, managing director of Fosters together with Walter Gordon Wilson.

An example of the first tanks that were used in the 1st World war is preserved and on display in the Museum of Lincolnshire Life. This is a Mark IV. The tanks were described as “Water carriers for Mesopotania” during production for security.

The firm used the symbol of the tank after the war on other machinery they built as a trade mark.

John Gwynne manufactured motor cars and centrifugal pumps in Hammersmith until acquired by Foster & Co. in 1927. Pump production was moved to Lincoln in 1930 and the company renamed Foster Gwynnes. Pump production ended in Lincoln in 1968.

In 1964 vertical pumps were supplied to the Deeping fen IDB for the pumping station at Pode Hole, where they remain in use. The company was acquired by W H Allen & Co in 1960, and subsequently by Amalgamated Power Engineering.

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Rev. T H Morgan

Rev. Morgan was a supporter of John Bright, and an abolitionist,

Rev. Morgan spent a short time in the Congo in Africa, and he lived in Boston, Lincolnshire, in Stourbridge, and at Shireland Hall,

Of interest:

The case of the Rev. T H Hall was recorded in Phantasms of the living by Edmund Gurney (a relative of Katherine Maria Routledge), Frederic William Henry Myers, Frank Podmore, and in Enigmas of psychical research by James Hervey Hyslop,

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George B Lloyd

George B Lloyd was a member of a Quaker family, the brother of Sampson Samuel Lloyd junior MP 1820 – 1899, and the cousin of James Lloyd 1806 – 1863 and Thomas Lloyd 1814 – 1890, who were all Sponsors of various Birmingham Charities and Hospitals, (Sampson Samuel Lloyd was an auditor of the Birmingham General Hospital alongside homeopath William Sharp, the President of the Midland Homeopathic Society in 1866), and as members of Lloyds Bank of Birmingham, this family was quite central to life in this City at this time.

The origins of Lloyds Bank stretch back to 1765, when John Taylor and Sampson Lloyd senior set up a private banking business in Birmingham, England. In 1865 the partnership changed its status to a joint-stock company, naming itself Lloyds Banking Company Limited.

Two sons of the original partners followed in their footsteps by establishing their own bank: Barnetts Hoares Hanbury and Lloyds, in Lombard Street, London. In 1884 this was absorbed into the growing Lloyds Banking Company.

Lloyds Bank was one of the oldest banks in the UK…. Through a series of mergers, Lloyds emerged to become one of the Big Four banks in the UK.

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Benjamin Hudson

B Hudson and Son published The Philanthropist – first published as The Reformer), which operated only for four years, and which produced copies for private circulation only, but which became influential enough to voice the mood for social change at that time,

B Hudson and Son also printed books and pamphlets by John Angell James, Robert Owen, Joseph Sturge, books produced by the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science founded by Henry Brougham 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, works promoting abolitionism, emancipation, labour relations, temperance, and many other liberal causes of the day,

Benjamin Hudson at 18 Bull Street, was also a branch of the British Empire Mutual Fire and Life Office,

Hudson and Son operated from 18 Bull Street Birmingham from 1821 to 1880, when it moved to the corner of Edward Street and Livery Street, Birmingham, (still operating 1966), ?still operating today at Unit 40, Jarvis Way, Birmingham B24 8TG,

From Personal Recollections of Birmingham and Birmingham Men by Eliezer Edwards 1815 0 1891:  Bull Street was then the principal street in Birmingham for retail business, and it contained some very excellent shops.

Most of the then existing names have disappeared, but a few remain. Mr. Suffield, to whose courtesy I am indebted for the loan of the rare print from which the frontispiece to this little book is copied, then occupied the premises near the bottom of the street, which he still retains.

Mr. Adkins, the druggist, carried on the business established almost a century ago. He is now the oldest inhabitant of Bull Street, having been born in the house he still occupies before the commencement of the present century.

Mr. Gargory–still hale, vigorous, and hearty, although rapidly approaching his eightieth year–then tenanted the shop next below Mr. Keirle, the fishmonger. His present shop and that of Mr. Harris, the dyer, occupy the site of the then Quakers’ Meeting House, which was a long, barn-like building, standing lengthwise to the street, and not having a window on that side to break the dreary expanse of brickwork.

Mr. Benson was in those days as celebrated for beef and civility as he is now. Mr. Page had just opened the shawl shop still carried on by his widow.

Near the Coach Yard was the shop of Mr. Hudson, the bookseller, whose son still carries on the business established by his father in 1821. In 1837, Mr. Hudson, Sen., was the publisher of a very well conducted liberal paper called The Philanthropist. The paper only existed some four or five years. It deserved a better fate….

The Philanthropist -First published (as The Reformer) April 16, 1835, by Benjamin Hudson, 18, Bull Street; weekly, four pages, price 7d., but in the following September lowered to 4-1/2d., the stamp duty of 4d. being at that time reduced to 1d. In politics it was Liberal, and a staunch supporter of the Dissenters, who only supported it for about two years.

From Showell’s Dictionary of Birmingham: The preceding are really but a few of the men of note whose connection with Birmingham has been of historical interest, and the catalogue might be extended to great length…

A volume might easily be filled with lives of scientific and literary men of the past, Hutton the historian, Morfitt, poet and barrister; Beilby, Hodgetts, Hudson, and other bookmen, to say naught of the many Press writers (who in their day added not a little to the advancement of their fellow townsmen)….

Of interest:

In 1850, Benjamin Hudson lost his son John Hudson 1826 – 1850, and the artist William Warner Major wrote to him to offer his condolences, – Benjamin Hudson’s son John Hudson was an artist, and he accompanied Howard Stansbury’s expedition to Utah and unfortunately died there in 1850,

Reginald Hudson, ?great grandson of Benjamin Hudson, joined Hudson and Son (Printers) in 1936,

William Hudson, son of Benjamin Hudson, was also a printer at 18 Bull Street, (he joined the firm in 1851),

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Many people in the last two hundred years have discovered the wonder of homeopathy.

There are most probably over a hundred thousand American homeopaths, millions of Indian homeopaths, hundreds of thousands of South American homeopaths, and tens of thousands of European homeopaths.

This list does not include the many hundreds of thousands of homeopaths from other countries, including Iran, the Far East, the Middle East – in fact homeopathy has spread to every country in the World – and this list does not include any of the many millions practicing homeopathy today.

This homeopathic history project is focused on the hidden history of Europe, as told by the homeopathic journals and publications which are, to some extent, only now coming to light with the advent of Google.

This list is a compilation of all the biographies I done so far (and also check out Sylvain Cazalet’s fabulous site for loads more information and hundreds of homeopathic photos PHOTOTHÈQUE HOMÉOPATHIQUE) (*photo used courtesy of Homéopathe International by Sylvain Cazalet at PHOTOTHÈQUE HOMÉOPATHIQUE)

Homeopathy A – L

Homeopathy M- Z

A Homeopathic History of Cholera

Aristocracy and Homeopathy

The Birmingham Homeopathic Hospital

British Homeopathic Associations and Journals

Hahnemann Hospital at 39 Bloomsbury Square

Homeopathic Dispensaries and Hospitals

National Woman Suffrage Association

Natural Hygiene Movement

The Royal London Homeopathic Hospital

Taubman Medical Library Homeopathy Collection

The Lancet

Homeopathy M- Z

Albert Abrams, Richard Acton, Karl Jakob Adam, Evangeline Smith Adams, Muriel Francis Adams, Thomas Adams, Jane Addams, Queen Adelaide, Count Nikolay Vladimirovich Adlerberg, *Carl Julius Aegidi, John Bertram Leslie Ainsworth, George Thomas Keppel 6th Earl of Albemarle, William Coutts Keppel Viscount Bury 7th Earl of Albemarle, Prince Albert, The Alcott Family, The Aldrich Surname, Gus Alexander, Tsar Alexander I, Tsar Alexander II, Tsar Alexander III, Henry Clay Allen, *Timothy Field Allen, *Rene Felix Eugene Allendy, George Edward Allshorn, Elias Altschul, Ernst Louis Ambrecht, Wilhelm Ameke, William Pitt Amherst 2nd Earl Amherst, The Anderson Surname, Hans Christian Andersen, John Anderson, John Richardson Andrews, Purnell W Andrews, Edward Pollock Anshutz, Susan Brownell Anthony, Guillaume Apollinaire, Dome Argenti, William Armitage, Victor Arnaud, Rudolf Arndt, Bettina von Arnim, Matthew Arnold, Chester A Arthur, John Ashburner, William Henry Ashurst, George Atkin, Joseph Attomyr, Moses G Atwood, Ernest Augustus I, Georges Auric, Francis I of Austria, James Smith Ayerst, William Alexander Ayton,

Charles Babbage, *Edward Bach, Grand Duchess of Baden, Gustav Ludvig Baden, Alexander Bain, Sara Josephine Baker, Evelyn Baldwin, Thomas Graham Balfour, Honore de Balzac, Charles Byron Bannister, Harley Granville Barker, J Ellis Barker, John William Hobart Barlee, John Barnett,  James Barr, The Bartlett Surname, Clara Barton, Vladimir Basargin, Ernst Bastanier, Charles Pierre Baudelaire, Charles Baudemprez, *Rene Baudry, The Bauer Surname, *Jacques Baur, Edward Bayard, William Bayes, Aubrey Vincent Beardsley, Henry Charles FitzRoy Somerset 8th Duke of Beaufort, Alfons Beck, Lydia Ernestine Becker, Rudolf Zacharias Becker, Samuel Barclay Beckett, The Beckwith Family, The Beecher Family, John Parton Berry, Ludwig van Beethoven, Ardeshir Kavasji Boman Behram, Emil Adolf von Behring, Joseph Bell, Georges de Bellio, Guiseppe Belluomini, Arnold Bennett, John Godolphin Bennett, Louis Hector Berlioz, Bernay, Sarah Bernhardt, Mauritius Fortier Bernoville, Edward William Berridge, Sarah Bernhardt, Juan Bertran, Annie Wood Besant, Vicomte Auguste Arthur Beugnot, Aneurin Bevan, Ernest Bevin, Mary Ann Bickerdyke, August Karl Gustav Bier, Hamilton Fisk Biggar, Isabella M Bittinger, Charles D Black, Francis Black, Marjorie Grace Blackie, The Blackley Family, The Blackwood Surname, James Dore Blake, Lillie Devereux Blake, Mary Jane Safford Blake, William Blake, Marguerite Power Farmer Gardiner Countess of Blessington, Odelia Blinn, Emilie Paravicini Blumer, Jules Bocco, Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon, Francis Henry Bodman, Clemens Maria Franz Baron von Boenninghausen, William Boericke, Carl Bojanus, The Bonaparte Family, William Le Roy Bonnell, Count Henri de Bonneval, George Boole, Lucy Everest Boole, Mary Everest Boole, Joel Thompson Boone, Catherine and William Booth, Edwin Thomas Booth, Douglas Morris Borland, Robert Bosch, Dionysius Lardner Boucicault, Adrian Cedric Boult, The Boyd Family, Thomas Lindsley Bradford, The Bradley Surname, Patrick A Brady, Johannes Brahms, The Brant Surname, Anton Georg Braunhofer, Franz Clemens Honoratus Hermann  Brentano, The Brigham Surname, John Bright, Emma Hardinge Britten, Allan Broman, The Bronte Sisters, Samuel Brooking, Walter R Brooks, Luke D Broughton, The Brown Surname, David Dyce Brown, Robert Browning, Ralph Buchan, Theophilus Bruckner Burckhardt, Samuel von Brukenthal, Carl Ernst Brutzer, William Cullen Bryant, Joseph Benedikt Buchner, Edwin Bullock, Michael von Bulmerincq, Christian Karl Josias Bunsen, Francis Burdett, George Henry Burford, William Alleyne Cecil Lord Burghley 3rd Marquess of Exeter, Thomas Henry Burgoyne, The Burnett Surname, James Compton Burnett, John Burroughs, M Fremont Kranz Busch, George Henry Bute, The Butler Surname, E A Butler, Josephine Elizabeth Butler, Samuel Butler, John Moorhead Byres Moir, Lord Byron,

Jules Adolphe Edouard Tallien of Cabarrus, John Cadbury, Harriet Emilie Cady, James Key Caird 1st Baronet, Mona Caird, Robert Henryson Caird, Cajaro, Baroness E C de Calabrella, Wathen Mark Wilks Call, Augusta Duchess of Cambridge, *Hugh Cameron, Abbe Campbell, Alice Boole Campbell, Isobel Campbell, Charlotte, Countess Canning, George Mann Carfrae, Samuel Basil Carlingford, Thomas Carlyle, The Carmichael Surname, Andrew Carnegie, Lewis Carroll, Andrew Carnegie, William Benjamin Carpenter, Richard Carscadden, Francois Cartier, Barbara Cartland, Paul Joseph Edmond Carton, Alfred Midgley Cash, Carl Gottlob Caspari, Carrie Chapman Catt, Hugh Frederick Vaughan Campbell 4th Earl Cawdor, John Mcleod Campbell, Juan Norberto Casanova, Edgar Cayce, Settimio Centamori, Paul Cezanne, James Chalmers, Alfred Edward Chalon, Robert Chambers, Robert Lucas Chance, Victor Chancerel, The Channing Family, John Chapman, Jean Martin Charcot, *Alexandre Charge, Charles William Bury 2nd Earl of Charleville, Francis Richard Charteris 10th Earl of Wemyss Lord Elcho, The Chase Surname, Sarah Blakesley Chase, Francois Rene Vicomte de Chateaubriand, Anton Chekhov, Edna Dow Cheney, Edward Charles Chepmell, Frederic Chopin, Agatha Christie, Count Eduard Clam Gallas, Otis Clapp, Nancy Talbot Clark, Charles Mansfield Clarke 1st Baronet, James Clark, John Henry Clarke, Grover Cleveland, Harriet Clisby, Arthur Crowden Clifton, Howard Roy Chislett, Arthur Hugh Clough, The Cobb Surname, Frances Power Cobbe, Richard Cobden, Samuel Cockburn, Rebecca Cole, Sarah A Cole, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Denys Collet, Wilkie Collins, Andrew Combe, George Combe, Anna Manning Comfort, Prince Arthur of Connaught, Ephraim Connor, Joseph Conrad, Margarete Conway and Moncure Daniel Conway, Charles Horton Cooley, Calvin Coolidge, Darnell Cooper, Robert Thomas Cooper, The Copeland Surname, Edward W Cotter, Norman Cousins, Samuel Courtauld, Malcolm Cowley, Allen Corson Cowperthwaite, William Simpson Craig, Cramoisy, George Grimston Craven 3rd Earl of Craven, Keppel Richard Craven, Henry Cresswell, A Cretin, Hawley Harvey Crippen, Richard Stafford Cripps, Abbie Holmes Christensen, Edward Cronin, Eugene Cronin, Simon Felix Camille Croserio, Catharine Crowe, Rebecca Lee Crumpler, Allan Cunningham, Andrew Tocher Cunningham, Paul Francois Curie, Pierre Curie, George William Curtis, Philip Norman Cutner, Marie, Comtesse d’Agoult,

Paul Dahlke, The Dake Family, Caroline Wells Healey Dall, Heinrich Philipp August Damerow, *John DaMonte, Charles Anderson Dana, Charles William Daniel, Charles Darwin, Erasmus Alvey Darwin, Henry William Dashwood 5th Baronet, Georg Friedrich Daumer, A J Davet, Peter Davidson, William Robertson Davies, Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis, John Roberson Day, A O Deacon, Frederick Myers Dearborn, Cornelia De Bey, Mary Deerhurst, Lady Coventry, Edgar Degas, Paul Degrais, Ferdinand Victor Eugene Delacroix, Edgard Delestinne, Frederick Albert Theodore Delius, William Thomas Denison, Antoine Hippolyte Desterne, Henry Detwiller, Duchess of Devonshire, Willis Alonzo Dewey, Diana Princess of Wales, Robert S Dick, Charles Dickens, Emily Dickinson, Marlene Dietrich, Charles McKenzie Dinsmoor, Thomas Thornton Macklin Dishington, Benjamin Disraeli, Vladimir von Ditman, Dorothea Dix, Abraham Dixon, Henry Dixon, Jacob Dixon, Ferdinand Dlugoborsky, Sarah Adamson Dolley, Fritz Donner, Richard Walter Hely Hutchinson 6th Earl of Donoughmore, Mathias Dorcsi, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Alfred Bruce Douglas, Arthur Conan Doyle, Domenico Carlo Maria Dragonetti, The Drake Family, C J Dring, William Drummond, William Vallancy Drury, The Drysdale Family, Frances Isabella Duberly, Robert Ellis Dudgeon, Samuel Richard Dubs, Pemberton Dudley, Robert Dufilho, Jean Barthelemy Arles Dufour, Pierre Dufresne, Jean Francois Dugniolle, Alexandre Dumas, Carroll Dunham, Vasily N Dunkel, Daniel Nicol Dunlop, George Dunn, Harris F Dunsford, Henry Duprat, Richard Durnford, Salomon Duseny, Amaury Duval,

Mary Baker Eddy, Alfred Duke of Edinburgh, Thomas Alva Edison, Susan Ann Edson, Edward VII, Edward VIII, James Easton, Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Ehrhardt, The Ehrmann Family, Otto Eichelberger, Francisco Xavier Eizayaga, Edward William Elgar, Lord Elgin, George Eliot, John Elliotson, Havelock Ellis, Victor Ellwood, Wilhelm Elwert, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Jones Emerton, Gerard Anaclet Vincent Encausse, Gunther Enderlein, Thomas Engall, Charles W Enos, *The Epps Family, Thomas Erskine of Linlathen, Arthur Algernon Capell 6th Earl of Essex, Prince Paul Anton III Esterhazy, William Etty, Thomas Roupell Everest, Dudley Wooton Everitt,

Estelle Faguette, Holger J Fangel, Ernest Albert Farrington, Henry Fawcett, George Fearon, Gustav Theodor Fechner, Augustus F Ferguson, William Fergusson 1st Baronet, Count Imre Emmerich Festetics, Heinrich Auguste Fielitz, Friederich Maximillian Bernhardt Fincke, Eliza Middleton Fisher, Gustave Flaubert, Friedrich Wilhelm Karl Fleischmann, Frederick Flint, Rudolf Flury, Albany William Fonblanque, John Forbes, John Murray Forbes, Ford Madox Ford, Gyorgy Forgo, John Forster, Donald MacDonald Foubister, Lydia Folger Fowler, William Darwin Fox, William Tilbury Fox, Francis I of Naples, Sigmund Freud, Adolf Albrecht Friedlander, John Eberhard Freitag, Robert Frith, James Anthony Froude, Margaret Fuller, Solomon Carter Fuller,

Nicholas Gabrilovich, Paul Ferdinand Gachet, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Joseph Albert Jack Pease 1st Baron Gainford, Norbert Galatzer, Jean Pierre Gallavardin, John Galsworthy, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Cecilia Helena Payne Gaposchkin, Pauline Viardot García, Robert William Gardiner, James A Garfield, Giuseppe Garibaldi, William Lloyd Garrison, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Antoni Gaudi, Jules Gaudy, Paul Gauguin, Theophile Gautier, The Geiger Surname, William Gell, James P Gelston, Johann Carl Ludwig Genzke, George V, George VI, Adolph Heinrich Gerstel, James Gibbs Blake, The Gibson Surname, The Gilbert Surname, Joseph Gilioli, Emile de Girardin, William Ewert Gladstone, Norbert Glas, Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka, Joseph Glover, James Goodshaw, Heinrich Goehrum, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Vincent van Gogh, The Golden Dawn, Giles Forward Goldsbrough, Victor Gollancz, Marjorie Golomb, Arthur Charles Gook, George Hamilton Gordon 4th Earl of Aberdeen, Edmund William Gosse, William von Gottschalk, Goulds Pharmacy, Charles Francois Gounod, Antoine Imbert Gourbeyre de la Touche, Rev. William Gover, George Percy Grainger, Hans Burch Gram, Ulysses S Grant, Augustus Bozzi Granville, Eduard Von Grauvogl, Robert Graves, John Franklin Gray, Horace Greeley, Eva M. Bononis Green, Cordelia Agnes Greene, Michael Greene, William Rathbone Greg, The Gregg Surname, Samuel Gregory, William Gregory, Philip Wilhelm Ludwig Greisselich, Edvard Hagerup Grieg, Josephine Sophia White Griffing, Harold Randall Griffith, The Grimke Sisters, The Grimm Brothers, Arthur Hill Grimmer, Edmund Becket Lord Grimthorpe, Giulia Grisi, Gustav Wilhelm Gross, Richard Grosvenor Earl Grosvenor 2nd Marquess of Westminster, Robert Grosvenor 1st Baron Ebury, George Grote, Petrie Nicholas Grouleff, Emile Herman Grubbe, The Guernsey Family, Comte Sebastien Gaeten Salvador Maxime Des Guidi, The Guilbert Family, Arthur Guinness, George Gulliver, James Manby Gully, MartIn Gumpert, Friedrich August Gunther, Russell Gurney, Gustaf V of Sweden, William Gutman,

Haakon VII of Norway, Richard Haehl, Hans Hermann Julius Hager, Christian Heinrich Hahn, William Herbert Tankard Hahnemann, Edwin Moses Hale, Robert Douglas Hale, Spencer Timothy Hall, Joseph Halla, Edward Hamilton, Clemens Hampe, Phoebe Ann Coffin Hanaford, Joseph Hands, Sydney Hanson, M Hanusch, Warren G Harding, Thomas Hardy, Gilbert Hare, Ernst Harnisch, H A Clifton Harris, William Henry Harrison, William Philip Harrison, C L Hart, Bret Harte, Carl Georg Christian Hartlaub, Frantz Hartmann, Christophe Hartung, Tobias Haslinger, Ludvig Daniel Hass, Carl Haubold, Ferenc Franz Hausmann, Alfred Edward Hawkes, Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Haycock, George Hayes, Rutherford B Hayes, Arvilla B Haynes, William Headland, William Randolph Hearst, Heinrich Heine, Henry John Heinz, Carl Gottlob Helbig, Johannes Helffrich, Hjalman Helledag, William Todd Helmuth, Charles Julius Hempel, Karl Hencke, William Henderson, Amos Henriques, Henry William Herbert, Jenny Poinsard d’Hericourt, Constantine Hering, William Hering, Christian Theodore Herrmann, John Herschel, Philip Arnold Heseltine, Myra Hess, Richard Walter Heurtley, Clarence Granville Hey, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Samuel Highley, George James Hilbers, Edwin Chadwick Rowland Hill, Wilbert Bartlett Hinsdale, Charles Howard Hinton, James Hinton, Bernhard Hirschel, Edward Hitschmann, Stephen and Rosa Hobhouse, Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann, Franz Josef Hofrichter, Elise Felicitas Freiin of Hohenhausen, William Henry Holcombe, Mary Augusta Fox Holland, George Calvert Holland, George Jacob Holyoake, Arthur Honegger, John Martin Honigberger, Theodore Edward Hook, Bertha van Hoosen, Cosmo Maria De Horatiis, Thomas Jeeves Horder, James Horlicks, Christian Gottlob Hornburg, Kate and Nina Hosali, William Howitt, The Houghton Surname, Julia Ward Howe, William Dean Howells, Ethelbert Petrie Hoyle, Temple S Hoyne, Caspar Hoze, William Huber, Elizabeth Wright Hubbard, Benjamin Hudson, Christoph Wilhelm von Hufeland, The Hughes Surname, Richard Hughes, John Stephen Hughes Games, Victor Hugo, Amos Gerald Hull, Annette von Droste Hulshoff, Frederick K Humphreys, Karl Abraham Hunnius, The Hunt Surname, Charles Hunt, John Sutcliffe Hurndall, Joris Karl Huysmans, The Huxley Family,

John Forbes Innerarity, F W Irvine, Washington Irving, Henry R Irwin, Charles Edmund Isham, Christopher Isherwood,

Mercy Bisbee Jackson, Helen Hunt Jackson, Stonewall Jackson, Abraham Jacobi, Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi, Gottlieb Heinrich Georg Jahr, William James, Jean Jarricot, Jacob Jeanes, Thomas Jefferson, Lydia Ann Moulton Jenkins, Caspar Julius Jenichen, Mary Lady Jeune, The Jewett Family, Walter R Johnson, James Johnstone, Pierre Jousset, James Joyce, Othon Andre Julian, Carl Gustav Jung,

Antoni Kaczkowski, Kay Kadalla, Sergei William Kadleigh, Charles Edwin Kahlke, C G Kallenbach, Charles John Keen, Harriette C Keatinge, John Keats, The Kellogg Surname, Henry Kelsall, The Kemble Sisters, James Tyler Kent, James Douglas Kenyon, Justinus Kerner, C B Kerr, Joseph Kidd, William Kingdon, Anna Bonus Kingsford, Arthur Fitzgerald, 10th Lord Kinnaird, Franz Xaver Kinzel, Rudyard Kipling, James Kitchen, Friedrick Arnold Klockenbring, Henry Valentine Knaggs, Sebastian Kneipp, Karl Adolph Knorre, George Stevenson Knowles, Charles Thomas Knox Shaw, Robert Koch, Karl Koenig, Eugen and Lili Kolisko, Baron Franz von Koller, C Everett Koop, David Ferdinand Koreff, Simon Nicolaievitch von Korsakoff, Lajos Kossuth, Karl Ferdinand Kuchler, Nikolai Alexandrovich Kulikovsky, Ernst Kummer, Jost Kunzli von Fimmelsberg, Gustav Kuschinsky, Boughton Kyngdon,

Mary Woodbury Lacy, George Lade, Leonard Lambreght, Friedrich Gottlieb Landesen, Walter Savage Landor, Edwin Henry Landseer, Edward Wickstead Lane, Christian Freidrich Langhammer, Henry Charles Keith Petty Fitzmaurice 5th Marquess of Lansdowne, V L Lanza, Heinrich Laube, Joseph Laurie, Thomas Lawrence, Thomas Robinson Leadam, William Leaf, Johann Taubes Ritter von Lebenswarth, Erich Kurt Ledermann, John Yate Lee, Robert E Lee, Otto Leeser, Ernest Legouve, William Bird van Lennep, Leopold I Belgium, Henri Leroux, Charles Powell Leslie, Ferdinand Marie, Vicomte de Lesseps, Guillaume Guillon Lethiere, Charles James Lever, George Henry Lewes, Octavia Margaret Sophia Lewin, Diocletian Lewis, Friedrich Edmund Peithner Ritter von Lichtenfels, Peter Jacob Liedbeck, Erwin Liek, Abraham Lincoln, Jenny Lind, Coutts Lindsay 2nd Baronet Trotter of Westville, Per Henrik Ling, S Linger, James William Linkhorn, Eliza Lynn Linton, I M  Lipnitskiy, Adolph Lippe, Joseph Lister, Robert Liston, Franz Liszt, Mary Ashton Rice Livermore, George B Lloyd, Andrew Hart Lockie, Charles Locock 1st Baronet, Justus Ferdinand Christian Loder, Oliver Joseph Lodge, Edward Lombe, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Longshore Family, William C Lord, Jane Webb Loudon, Samuel Lover, William Lovett, The Lowe Surname, Edward Cronin Lowe, James Russell Lowell, Charlotte Denman Lozier, Clemence Lozier, Reuben Ludlam, Hans Christian Lund, Charles W Luther, Arthur Ernst Lutze, Johan Joseph Wilhelm Lux, Charles Lyell, Adam Lyschinski, Edward Bulwer Lytton,

Of interest (below are listed those people of whom little information can be found):

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Joseph Higgs Addy was a porter at a homeopathic establishment in Matlock in 1881,

Aschkouroff In 1894, a directory lists three homeopathic physicians for Riga: Dr Aschkouroff, Dr Xavier Pawlowitsch and Dr Constantin Franzovitsch Schvezkovsky (Schweykovsky).

Aszpodin practiced in Tilsit (now Sovetsk after 1946) in the 1870s

Thomas Batye

Franz Rudolf Benninger 1829? – 1887? MD was a German orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy. Franz Rudolf Benninger was the physician of the Carl III, Duke of Parma. Benninger practiced in Graz, and in 1842, Benninger wrote Geschichtlicher Ueberblick der wichtigsten physiologischen Principien des Lebens.

Kenneth Biddis 1935? – was a Trustee of the Royal London Homeopathic Hospital alongside Adrian Cedric Boult, John Bertram Leslie Ainsworth, Marjorie Blackie, Douglas Morris Borland, Carl Davies, Dudley Wooton Everitt, Donald MacDonald Foubister, George MacLeod, Douglas Medlicott Gibson, and John Weir. George MacLeod and Ken Biddis, two members of only a handful of veterinary surgeons who continued to practice Homeopathy before its revival during the late 70s…. Kenneth Biddis wrote Homeopathy in Veterinary Practice with George MacLeod,

G W Big wrote Fragmentary Observations on veterinary client in 1830, and was possibly associated with Johan Joseph Wilhelm Lux,

Bigelius 1802? – 1872? MD was a Russian orthodox physician, Professor of Medicine in St. Petersburg, who converted to homeopathy, Bigelius was the physician of Tsar Alexander I, Grand Duke Constantine, Bigelius wrote a 3 volume treatise on homeopathy in French in 1827,

Carl Ludwig Bohm (Karoly Bohm) (Boehm) (Boehme) 1814 – 1879 was a Hungarian veterinary surgeon at the Szent Istvan University between 1814 – 1845, and Head of the Department of Anatomy at Semmelweis University between 1819 – 1823, Professor of Medicine in Pest who was interested in homeopathic veterinary therapeitics,

Carl Ludwig Bohm wrote Közhasznú hasonszenvi állatorvosi könyv (Handbook for homeopathic veterinary medicine), Kurze praktische anleitung für alle viehbesitzer, Die Haltung, Pflege und Behandlung der landwirthschaftlichen Haussäugethiere im gesunden und kranken Zustande, Vollständiges Vieharzneibuch für kleine und große Landwirthe, Repertorium der Thierheilkunde nach homöopathischen Grundsätzen, (In English – Keeping, Care of Agricultural Haussaugethiere in healthy and diseased state (1849), The Horses Homeopathic Doctor (1855), The Homeopathic Cattle Doctor (1857), The Sheep Homeopathic Doctor (1860), Repertory of Homeopathic Principles (1861), The Domestic Aminal Doctor of Homeopathic Method of Treatment (cattle) (1863), A short Practical Guide to all Cattle Owners (1873)), and he submitted cases and articles to various homeopathic publications,

Richard Bonsmann dates unknown – did research into crotalis – nothing else found

Dr. Cabrol was an orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy. Cabrol was the homeopathic physician of Jacques Leroy de Saint Arnaud. In 1854, during the cholera epidemic at Varna, Surgeon General Cabro treated a great number of people with homeopathy.

Henry Christian ?1807 – ?1891 was a Solicitor and an Attorney, Auditor of Lloyds Bank and the Birmingham Banking Company, Director of the Midland Financial Company, and the Treasurer and a Trustee at the Birmingham Homeopathic Hospital,

Crepel 1862? – 1947? MD was a French homeopathy who converted to homeopathy, Crepel was the homeopathic physician of Emile Francois Loubet’s young son, and he practiced in Paris.

G Diepholz was a Veterinary Surgeon in Kehdingen in 1837? He defended homeopathy, and the magazine Zooiasis, attacking the Professors of the Berlin Animal Medical School for ‘ twisted portrayals of homeopathic horse treatments’ and accusing them of “lunar blindness”,

Ludwig Ditterich 1804 – 1873

Donauer (Danube) wrote Vorschläge zur zweckmäßigen Behandlung kranker Hunde in 1815, the very first paper written about veterinary homeopathy,

Dusterberg MD was a German orthodox physician who, In 1820, conducted clinical trials into the use of belladonna in the treatment of Scarlet fever, Dusterberg’s experience using belladonna during three consecutive epidemics of scarlet fever led him to conclude that it was “as effective as vaccination”(1824). Dusterberg practiced in Warbourg. He submitted cases and articles and provings to various homeopathic publications.

Evelyn Eglington was a close friend of Dudley Wooton Everitt – still alive?

John Eykyn 1848 -  MRCVS was a British orthodox Veterinary Surgeon who converted to homeopathy. John Eykyn practiced at 6 Windsor Terrace, Church Hill Road, Handsworth, Birmingham,

Charles Felton ?1805 – ?1879 was a British manufacturer, floricultiralist, prize winning cock breeder and pig breeder, supporter of Temperance, and a supporter of the Old Crown Public House at Der Yat End (Deritend), a sponsor of missionaries, and a member of the Management Committee of the Birmingham Homeopathic Hospital,

Frohwein (Frovein) practiced in Vilnius in 1911, alongside Vasily N Dunkel,

Gilish 1800? -1850? was a colleague of Curie, Quin, Epps, Harris F Dunsford, Gilish, Partridge, and he was associated with settling up the English Homeopathic Association.

Harry Gooday MRCVS was a British orthodox Veterinay Surgeon who converted to homeopathy, and he wrote  The Text Book of Veterinary Homeopathic Practice in 1863. On 24.7.1901, Harry Gooday aged 37 of Belchamp St Pauls was summoned for being asleep and not having control over three horses at Birdbrook and fined 5s.and 12s costs.

Adolf Grondal 1841 – 1912 was a Swedish orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy. The first association of homeopaths was the Hahnemannföreningen which had been founded in Gothenburg in 1909 in order to offer free homeopathic treatment for the poor and to start a homeopathic hospital. Three years later the homeopathic doctors in the country joined forces as Svenska Homeopatiska Läkareföreningen. This was initiated by Hjalman Helledag and Dr Adolf Gröndal (1841 – 1912) from Stockholm.

T Harness wrote The abundance diseases: a handbook for veterinary surgeons and larger growers in 1839,

Ellen Hilsdorf correspondence is held in the Melchior Lechter Papers 1879-1937 archive: Ellen Hilsdorf, 9 letters and 4 postcards (1916-1921); Jacob Hilsdorf, photographer, 13 letters and 4 postcards (1903-1917); Theodor Hilsdorf, photographer, 6 letters, some including Ellen’s writing, enclosure for announcement of homeopathic physician and a 5 page enclosure in the letter of 11/30/33 with no signature (1928-1937).

Charles Hunt was an Honorary member of the British Homeopathic Association, and knew the Staff of the Hahnemann Hospital at 39 Bloomsbury Square,

W F James ?1806 – ?1887 was a British Auditor, member of the Committee at the Spring Hill College in Birmingham, Secretary of the The Bible Christian magazine, and a member of the Management Committee of the Birmingham Homeopathic Hospital, W F James wrote Seven years’ pioneer mission work in Cardiff,

Christian Heinrich Jani 1762 – 1831MD, was a German orthodox physician who experimented with belladonna in his cases of scarlet fever. Christian Heinrich Jani was a friend of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Christian Heinrich Jani practiced in Gera. On 18th January 1827, Christian Heinrich Jani and Dr. Thamerus lead the smallpox vaccination in Gera. Christian Heinrich Jani wrote Ordinis Medici in Vniversitate Litteraria Ienensi h.t. Decanvs Christianvs … ,

Jawlowski, a ?Polish orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy and practised in Kaunas in Lithuania, and he is mentioned in Bernhard Hirschel’s Zeitschrift für homöopathische Klinik, Volumes 23-25 in 1874. Of interest: Jerome Jawlowski 1887 – 1977 Polish zoologist, and after graduating (1908) middle school, he studied in his native Kaunas (to 1914) on the faculty of mathematics and physics at the University Persburskiego.

John Jefferys ?1816 – ?1888 was a British Barrister (Lincoln’s Inn 1835),  on the Management Committee of the Birmingham Homeopathic Hospital, John Jefferys lived at 39 Waterloo Street, Birmingham,

A H Kindermann was on the local Liverpool Committee of the British Homeopathic Association in 1849.

J M Kreutzer is quoted in The veterinary vade mecum by R P G Lord, worked at the Royal Veterinary School in Berlin, and made isopathic and homeopathic medical experiments on animals in 1835,

Kuschelewsky was an aristocratic lay healer who practised in Kaunas in Lithuania around 1880, and he is mentioned in Bernhard Hirschel’s Zeitschrift für homöopathische Klinik, Volumes 23-25 in 1874.

Landersmann was a colleague of was a colleague of Archhorn, Joseph Attomyr, Friedrich Wilhelm Karl Fleischmann, Frohlich, Gaspar, Adolph Heinrich Gerstel, Clemens Hampe, Low, Matthias Marenzeller, Clotar Moriz Mueller, Schaflin, George Schmid, A Schmidt, Schwarz, Tedesko, Viet, Walter, Philipp Anton Watzke, Franz Wurmb, Wurstl, and many others.

Sander Larsen was a homeopathic Veterinary Surgeon who practiced in Hornsyld in Jutland in 1887,

F Lascelles was on the Board of Management of the London Homeopathic Hospital, and a colleague of Ralph Buchan,

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Rev. William Gover

Rev. Gover was eager to support the Birmingham Homeopathic Hospital, as he had sent hundreds of people to the homeopathic dispensary in the in the sixteen years he had lived in Birmingham,

The National Association for the Promotion of Social Science, otherwise known as the Social Science Association, was the pre-eminent forum for the discussion of social questions and the dissemination of knowledge about society in mid-Victorian Britain.

Founded in 1857 and active until 1884, it provided expert guidance to policy makers and politicians in the era of William Ewert Gladstone and Benjamin Disraeli.

The Association was constructed out of several different organisations and campaigns in the mid 1850s. Rather than undertaking research and lobbying government on single issues, social reformers then believed that a pooling of resources and ideas in a single, large and multi faceted forum would assist their various interests and the cause of reform in general.

The National Association brought together law reformers from the Society for Promoting the Amendment of the Law (which had been founded in 1844); penal reformers from the National Reformatory Union who were focused on the reformation of young offenders; and the pioneering feminists of the Langham Place Circle in London who, from 1855, led a campaign to reform the laws of property as they affected women in marriage, and who subsequently extended their critique to many other aspects of the social, economic and political status of women in Victorian Britain.

The participation of women in the Social Science Association was one of its most remarkable features; for some years it was the major public forum for the discussion of women’s issues in public life.

In 1857 Mary Carpenter, famous for her work with ragged and criminal children, reputedly became the first woman of the middle or upper classes to speak in public in Britain when she addressed the Association’s inaugural congress in Birmingham.

The Association was founded at a meeting in the London home of Henry Brougham 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux in July 1857 attended by over fifty people drawn from different areas of Victorian life – politics, medicine, social administration, the legal professions, the universities, and women’s education.

The Birmingham congress, held in the city in October, set the pattern of the annual meetings held in different British cities each autumn until 1884. A congress would last for the best part of a week; it attracted hundreds (and in many cases thousands) of participants in a mixture of plenary and specialist sessions; it mixed together provincial audiences and metropolitan figures, many from the worlds of national politics and administration.

Its proceedings would be extensively reported in the local press, where fuller accounts can often be found of papers only summarised or listed in the Association’s published Transactions….

In the 1820s and 1830s Henry Brougham 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, its founding president, had been the most dynamic of popular political figures through his associations with anti slavery, popular education, the reform of the franchise, and the modernisation of the law.

By 1857 Henry Brougham 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux was a venerated symbol of past campaigns and an ideal figurehead for an organisation seeking to build support for its favoured causes.

John Russell 1st Earl Russell, the mid Victorian Liberal prime minister gave important addresses at its first two congresses in Birmingham and Liverpool in 1857 and 1858; William Ewert Gladstone was present for its 1863 congress in Edinburgh and, in 1868, chaired a notable meeting of its Committee on Labour and Capital a few weeks before he became prime minister for the first time.

Lesser figures, many of cabinet rank, and largely drawn from the Liberal party, were frequent speakers. They were joined by public servants such as Edwin Chadwick, John Simon and William Farr, three of the great sanitary reformers of the nineteenth century; economists including Henry Fawcett and William Stanley Jevons; and intellectuals as various as John Stuart Mill, John Ruskin, Frederick Denison Maurice and Charles Kingsley.

In sum, a remarkable number of eminent or just important Victorians had some sort of place in the history of the Social Science Association. continue reading:

Rev. Gover wrote Our Work; or, remarks upon the results of an inquiry into the state of education of the working classes in Birmingham, The Irish Church,

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