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Authorised form of nameEarle; Sir; James (1755 - 1817)
Dates1755 - 1817
NationalityBritish
Place of birthLondon, England
OccupationSurgeon
ActivityEducation:
St Bartholomew's Hospital, London
Career:
Assistant Surgeon (1770), later Surgeon (1784), St Bartholomew's Hospital, London; Surgeon Extraordinary to George III; President of the College of Surgeons; famous as a lithotomist
Honours:
Kt 1802
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election06/03/1794
RelationshipsMarried the daughter of Percival Pott (FRS 1764); their son was Henry Earle (FRS 1822)
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Notes:
Shaw gives 1800 as the year of his knighthood.
Virtual International Authority File39768012
CodeNA2897
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
IM/001227Earle, Sir James30 May 1794
PT/3/19Paper, 'An account of a calculus from the human bladder of uncommon magnitude' by Sir James Earle26 December 1808
EC/1793/17Earle, Sir James: certificate of election to the Royal Society
PT/3/19/1Manuscript, 'An account of a calculus from the human bladder of uncommon magnitude' by Sir James Earle26 December 1808
PT/3/19/3Plate, illustration of cavity within calculus by W [William] CliftSeptember 1808
PT/3/19/2Plate, illustration of calculus by W [William] CliftSeptember 1808
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