Sketches of the lives and work of the honorary medical staff of the Manchester Infirmary : from its foundation in 1752 to 1830 when it became the Royal Infirmary / [Edward Mansfield Brockbank].

Edward Mansfield Brockbank

Date:: 1904

Credit: Sketches of the lives and work of the honorary medical staff of the Manchester Infirmary : from its foundation in 1752 to 1830 when it became the Royal Infirmary / [Edward Mansfield Brockbank]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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chantry and the north aisle of the choir. I have found no medical works of his. Like many other of the gentry of Manchester, Richard Edward Hall was a Jacobite, and is said to have entertained the young Pretender when the rebels were in the town in 1745, and also during Prince Charles Edward’s mythical visit of the previous year. The story goes that the young Pretender stayed for some weeks, in disguise, at Ancoats Hall, the home of the Mosleys, so that he could watch events in London and be ready to strike his blow as soon as occasion offered. The Stuart papers do not yield any evidence to shew that the 1744 visit was really paid, and the whole story is dependent on the statement of a servant girl, who said she recognised the Prince when entering Manchester at the head of his men, as being the same gentleman who had stayed the previous year at Ancoats Hall. But though Hall was a Jacobite at heart, he was not prepared to risk life or property in support of a cause which he, with many others of his way of thinking, saw to be hopeless, and no mention of him occurs in the diaries or records of the time as actively supporting the “King over the water.” In Miss Elizabeth (or “ Beppy”) Byrom’s interesting and

Sketches of the lives and work of the honorary medical staff of the Manchester Infirmary : from its foundation in 1752 to 1830 when it became the Royal Infirmary / [Edward Mansfield Brockbank].

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