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Authorised form of nameCrampton; Sir; Philip (1777 - 1858)
Dates1777 - 1858
NationalityBritish
Place of birthDublin, Ireland
Date of birth07 June 1777
Date of death10 June 1858
OccupationSurgeon
Research fieldZoology
ActivityEducation:
Apprenticed to Solomon Richards, surgeon York Street (1791); College of Surgeons, Ireland (1798); Meath Hospital; MD (1800, Glasgow)
Career:
In the Army Medical Department; surgeon to the Meath Hospital (1798-1858); taught anatomy; member of the Court of Assistants (1801); surgeon to the Westmoreland Lock Hospital for Venereal Diseases (1806); Surgeon General to the Forces in Ireland (1813); Surgeon in Ordinary to the Queen; involved in the foundation of the Royal Zoological Society of Ireland, became President; discovered Musculus cramtonius - a tiny muscle in the eyes of birds which facilitates fine adjustments of avian vision
Honours:
Bt 1839
Memberships:
FRCSI 1801 President 1811,1820, 1844, 1855
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election16/04/1812
RelationshipsSon of Anne Verner and John Crampton, surgeon-dentist; married (1802) Selina Hamilton Cannon, daughter of an army officer; eldest son became British ambassador to Russia
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; Irish Inventors
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/53408580
CodeNA3309
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
EC/1812/01Crampton, Sir Philip: certificate of election to the Royal Society
L&P/12/28Paper, 'Analysis of a pulmonary calculus' by Philip Crampton1802
AP/8/8Unpublished paper, 'The description of an organ by which the eyes of birds are accommodated to the different distances of objects' by Philip Crampton7 June 1811
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