Authorised form of name | Richardson; Sir; Benjamin Ward (1828 - 1896) |
Dates | 1828 - 1896 |
Nationality | British |
Place of birth | Somerby, Leicestershire, England |
Date of birth | 31 October 1828 |
Place of death | 25 Manchester Square, London |
Date of death | 21 November 1896 |
DatesAndPlaces | Burial: Cremated at Brookwood, Surrey |
Occupation | Physician |
Research field | Medicine |
Pharmacology |
Anaesthetics |
Activity | Education: Glasgow. MD; MA Career: Settled in London (1854); Physician, Royal Hospital for Diseases of the Chest, London (1856); Physician, London Temperance Hospital (1892); produced journal, 'Asclepiad' Honours: Kt 1893 Memberships: FRCP; Philosophical Society of America (Honorary 1863)
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Membership category | Fellow |
Date of election | 06/06/1867 |
RSActivity | Lectures: Croonian 1873 |
Source | Sources: Bulloch's Roll; DNB; DSB Obituaries: Proc Roy Soc 1905 vol 75 pp 51-52 signed by T C A References: Roy S Porter, 'Medical futures' (The Wilkins Lecture 2000) in NR 2001 vol 55 pp 325-329 |
Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/54277110 |
Code | NA4530 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNo | Title | Date |
EC/1867/16 | Richardson, Sir Benjamin Ward: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
IM/003810 | Richardson, Sir Benjamin Ward | nd |
NLB/8/109 | Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons, 45 St Martin's Lane | 18 July 1893 |
NLB/7/444 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr Benjamin Ward Richardson | 20 February 1893 |
NLB/5/475 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr Benjamin Ward Richardson, [Fellow of the Royal Society] | 25 June 1891 |
NLB/5/1091 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Dr Benjamin Ward Richardson, Fellow of the Royal Society | 4 January 1892 |
NLB/11/115 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Messrs Faraday & Son, 3 Berners Street, W. | 24 April 1895 |
MC/9/522 | Letter from B W [Benjamin Ward] Richardson, 12 Hinde Street, to Professor [Thomas Henry] Huxley, [Secretary of the Royal Society] | 21 March 1873 |
MC/9 | Volume 9 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1870-June 1873 |
AP/65/4 | Unpublished paper, 'A contribution to the study of the comparative anatomy of flowers' by G [George] Henslow | 1887 |
AP/47/5 | Unpublished paper, 'A report embracing an inquiry as to the possibility of restoring the life of warm-blooded animals in certain cases where the respiration, the circulation, and the ordinary manifestations of organic motion are exhausted as have ceased, part II: Experimental evidence' by Benjamin Ward Richardson | June 1865 |
PP/5/8 | Paper, 'Observations on the ingesta and egesta of Mr Edward Payson Weston during his walk of 5,000 miles in 100 days' by A [Alexander] Wynter Blyth | 1884 |
PP/7/12 | Paper, 'Studies of disinfectants by new methods' by A [Alexander] Wynter Blyth | 1885 |