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Authorised form of nameStokes; William (1804 - 1878)
Dates1804 - 1878
Place of birthDublin, Ireland
DatesAndPlacesBurial:
St Finlan's, Howth (07 or 10 January 1878)
OccupationPhysician
ActivityEducation:
Private education; MD (Edinburgh, 1825); LLD
Career:
As a student published a book on the use of the stethoscope; Physician, Meath Hospital (1826); worked with Robert James Graves (FRS 1850) to reform medical teaching in Dublin; had a large practice; discovered 'Cheyne-Stokes breathing' pattern and 'Stokes Adams Syndrome'; Regius Professor of Medicine, University of Dublin (1843); retired from practice; Physician in Ordinary to the Queen in Ireland; died two months after a paralytic stroke
Memberships:
LRCPI; MRIA; Imperial Society of Physicians of Vienna; Honorary Member, Royal Medical Societies of Berlin, Leipzig, and Sweden.
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election06/06/1861
RelationshipsSon of Whitley Stokes, Professor of Medicine, Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin; married (1828) Mary Black
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; Irish Innovators
Notes:
TR and Boase give death date as 07 January 1878; DNB gives 10 January 1878
CodeNA6034
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
EC/1861/15Stokes, William: certificate of election to the Royal Society
NLB/4/858Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Fellow of the Royal Society13 November 1890
AP/39/7Letter, 'On the optical characters of certain alkaloids associated with quinine, and of the sulphates of their iodo-compounds' from William Bird Herapath to [George Gabriel] Stokes6 January 1856
AP/40/15Unpublished paper, 'The functions of tympanum' by James Jago1858
AP/40/3/1Unpublished manuscript, 'Researches on cinchona alkaloids: critical examination of the ordinary methods employed for the discrimination of the cinchona alkaloids, quinine, quinidin, quinicine, and cinchonine, cinchonidin, cinchonicine, together with the optical and chemical characters of their iodo sulphates, upon which new methods are founded' by William Bird Herapath1857
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