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Darwin Correspondence Project

William Swift Wade

1829–1911

Surgeon, medical officer, and general practitioner. LSA, Leeds, 1850; Licentiate of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons, Glasgow, 1858; LRCP, Edinburgh, 1859. Army doctor, 1853 and 1855. Surgeon at the P&O hospital in Calcutta. Surgeon on board SS Canadian and Cunard Royal Mail SS Canada and America. Medical officer of health, Wakefield; surgeon to Wakefield Borough Police.

Sources

BMD (Death index)

England and Wales christening records, 1530–1906 (Ancestry.com, accessed 21 May 2012)

Medical directory 1874.

Bibliography

BMD: General Register Office, England and Wales civil registration indexes. England & Wales birth index, 1837–1983. England and Wales marriage index, 1837–1983. England and Wales death index, 1837–1983. Online database. Provo, Utah: The Generations Network. 2006. www.ancestry.com.

Medical directory: The London medical directory … every physician, surgeon, and general practitioner resident in London. London: C. Mitchell. 1845. The London and provincial medical directory. London: John Churchill. 1848–60. The London & provincial medical directory, inclusive of the medical directory for Scotland, and the medical directory for Ireland, and general medical register. London: John Churchill. 1861–9. The medical directory … including the London and provincial medical directory, the medical directory for Scotland, the medical directory for Ireland. London: J. & A. Churchill. 1870–1905.

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