Osborne, William

Education

M.D. 10.10.1774 on testimonials signed by James Walker and Thomas Denman, London.

Birth/childhood

Born 1736 in Rutland.

Career

Apprenticed to Dr. John Fordyce, Uppingham.

Studied London under Dr. William Hunter, St George’s hospital and Paris.

L.M. R.C.P.L. [Royal College of Physicians of London] 1783.

Surgeon to a Guards Regiment for a time.

Physician to General Lying - in hospital, London. Lectured on Midwifery. [Doctor, university lecturer]

Publications

Death

Died at Old Park, near Dover 15.8.1808 aged 72.

Sources

  • Munk's Roll ii 336
  • DNB(error in date of M.D.)
  • Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal 5 1809 28-29