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See also:WAKLEY, See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
THOMAS (1795-1862) , See also:English medical and social reformer, was See also:born in See also:Devonshire, and was See also:early apprenticed to a See also:Taunton See also:apothecary. He then went to See also:London and qualified as a surgeon, setting up in practice in See also:Regent See also:Street, and marrying (182o) See also:Miss Goodchild, whose See also:father was a See also:merchant and a See also:governor of St Thomas's See also:Hospital. All through his career Wakley proved to be a See also:man of aggressive See also:personality, and his experiences in this respect had a sensational beginning. In See also:August 1820 a gang of men who had some grievance against him burnt down his
See also:house and severely wounded him in a murderous See also:assault. The whole affair was obscure, and Wakley was even suspected, unjustly, of setting See also:fire to his house himself; but he won his See also:case against the See also:insurance See also:company which contested his claim. He became a friend of See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Cobbett, with whose radicalism he was in sympathy. In 1823 he started the well-known medical weekly See also:paper, the See also:Lancet, and began a See also:series of attacks on the jobbery in See also:vogue among the practitioners of the See also:day, who were accustomed to treat the medical profession as a See also:close See also:- BOROUGH (A.S. nominative burh, dative byrig, which produces some of the place-names ending in bury, a sheltered or fortified place, the camp of refuge of a tribe, the stronghold of a chieftain; cf. Ger. Burg, Fr. bor, bore, bourg)
- BOROUGH [BURROUGH, BURROWE, BORROWS], STEVEN (1525–1584)
borough. In opposition to the hospital doctors he insisted on See also:publishing reports of their lectures and exposing various malpractices, and he had to fight a number of lawsuits, which, however, only increased his See also:influence. He attacked the whole constitution of the Royal See also:College of Surgeons, and obtained so much support from among the See also:general See also:body of the profession, now roused to a sense of the abuses he exposed, that in 1827 a See also:petition to See also:parliament resulted in a return being ordered of the public See also:money granted to it. But reform in the college was slow, and Wakley now set himself to rouse the House of See also:Commons from within. He became a See also:radical See also:candidate for parliament, and in 1835 was returned for See also:Finsbury, retaining his seat till 1852. In this capacity, and also as See also:coroner for See also:West See also:Middlesex—an See also:appointment he secured in 1839—he was indefatigable in upholding the interests of the working classes and advocating humanitarian reforms, as well as in pursuing his See also:campaign against medical restrictions and abuses; and he made the Lancet not only a professional See also:organ but a powerful See also:engine of social reform. He died on the 16th of May 1862, leaving three sons, the proprietor-See also:ship of the Lancet remaining in the See also:family.
End of Article: WAKLEY, THOMAS (1795-1862)
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