6-502: Richard Hobson may refer to: Richard Hobson (physician) , English physician Richard Hobson (priest) , Irish Anglican priest Richard R. G. Hobson , member of the Virginia House of Delegates [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
12-439: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard_Hobson&oldid=1215092795 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Richard Hobson (physician) Richard Hobson (1795 – 29 November 1868)
18-521: The naturalist, who lived at Walton Hall, about twelve miles from Leeds. Here Hobson became a frequent visitor and physician to the family. Waterton often wrote to him. Their intercourse ceased a few years before Waterton's death. While it lasted Hobson states that he showed Waterton a memoir which he had written of the naturalist. This statement was not believed at Walton Hall, and the book, ‘Charles Waterton; his Home, Habits, and Handiwork,’ which Hobson published in 1866, contains abundant internal evidence that
24-424: The statement about Waterton's approval of the manuscript is untrue. Many of the stories in the book are false, the letters given have been altered, and the only faithful parts of the work are the engravings of Walton Hall, some of them drawn from photographs taken by Hobson himself. A fall from his carriage made him an invalid, and while confined to the house he broke his thigh-bone, and died 29 November 1868. His wife,
30-537: Was an English physician. Hobson was born at Whitehaven , Cumberland , in 1795. After school education he was sent to study medicine at St. George's Hospital, London . He became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons , and finally deciding to become a physician, went to Queens' College, Cambridge , and there graduated M.B. in 1825, M.D. in 1830. In 1831 he settled in practice in Leeds, and on 30 September 1833
36-587: Was elected physician to the infirmary there, a post which he resigned in 1843. During this period he published in the ‘Medical Gazette’ some notes on diabetes, and on the external use of croton oil. His tastes led him to frequent the turf. He belonged to the Harewood coursing club, bred racehorses, and hunted with the Bramham hunt. For a short time he kept a pack of harriers. He had some knowledge of natural history, and in 1836 became acquainted with Charles Waterton ,
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