Robert McDonnell
1828–89
Irish surgeon. Served as a surgeon in the Crimean War, 1855. Demonstrator of anatomy, Carmichael School of Medicine, 1856; afterwards lecturer on anatomy and physiology. Surgeon to Jervis Street Hospital, Dublin, 1863; to Steevens’s Hospital, 1866. Medical superintendent of the Mountjoy government prison, 1857–67. Elected president, Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland, 1877; president, Academy of Medicine in Ireland, 1885–8. FRS 1865.
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DNB.
Bibliography
DNB: Dictionary of national biography. Edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee. 63 vols. and 2 supplements (6 vols.). London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1912. Dictionary of national biography 1912–90. Edited by H. W. C. Davis et al. 9 vols. London: Oxford University Press. 1927–96.
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