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William Henry Robertson (physician)

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He was chairman of the Buxton Improvements Company and of the trustees of Buxton College. He was also churchwarden at
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He studied the effects of the local mineral waters on disease and promoted their value in the treatment of
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William married Eliza Gill in 1836 and they had a daughter Elizabeth and two sons, William and Gordon.
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in 1830. After practising as a doctor for a short time at Chesterfield, he settled permanently in
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Robertson came to Buxton in 1835. He wrote the definitive tourist guidebook to Buxton in 1854.
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He qualified as a magistrate in 1867 and served on the bench in Buxton for 30 years.
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A Hand-book to the Peak of Derbyshire: And to the Use of the Buxton Mineral Waters
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In 1881, the Buxton Bath Charity trustees (under his chairmanship) persuaded
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He was born in London and graduated in medicine at the
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Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Medical School
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William Henry Roberston (physician)
physician
Buxton

University of Edinburgh
Buxton
gout
rheumatism
sciatica

Buxton Bath Charity
Sir Charles Scudamore
Royal College of Physicians
William Cavendish
Devonshire Dome
Robert Rippon Duke
The Square
St John the Baptist Church
Buxton and its Waters
The Nature and Treatment of Gout
A Guide to the Use of the Buxton Waters
A Hand-Book of the Peak of Derbyshire
ISBN
1-85936-086-6
"William Henry Robertson | RCP Museum"
ISBN
9781318591060
Categories
1810 births
1897 deaths

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