The life of Sir Henry Halford, bart., G.C.H., M.D., F.R.S., president of the Royal college of physicians, physician to George III., George IV., William IV., and to Her Majesty Queen Victoria / By William Munk.

Date:
1895
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The life of Sir Henry Halford, bart., G.C.H., M.D., F.R.S., president of the Royal college of physicians, physician to George III., George IV., William IV., and to Her Majesty Queen Victoria / By William Munk. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    ]N^o. i6—the fine and commodious house next to Wharncliffe House, where he lived the remainder of his life and in which he died. By the year 1800 his private engagements had become so numerous that he was compelled to relinquish his office of physician to the Middlesex Hospital. Several circumstances conspired about this time to add to his reputation and advance his interests. Upon St. Luke’s day, 1800, he delivered the Harveian Oration to his colleagues, the fellows of the Royal College of Physicians. It was in choice Latin and in excellent taste throughout. His tribute to the memory of his friend Dr. Warren, then but recently dead, and his eulogy of the characters and services to the College and to the public of Dr. Heberden and Sir George Baker, both of whom were living but aged, were conceived in the best spirit and clothed in the choicest terms. The oration was generally admired and established his reputation as a scholar with the fellows of the College and with his friends and acquaintances outside it. In the spring of 1806, Georgina, the beautiful Duchess of Devonshire, whose features are familiar to most persons from Gainsborough’s unrivalled portrait, fell ill while dining at the
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