William Hales Hingston

William Hales Hingston (1867)

Sir William Hales Hingston , KCB (born June 29, 1829 in Hinchinbrooke , Lower Canada , † February 19, 1907 in Montreal ) was a Canadian politician , doctor and banker . From 1875 to 1877 he was mayor of Montreal, from 1896 a member of the Senate .

biography

Hingston received his secondary education at the Petit Séminaire de Montréal . From 1844 he worked in a pharmacy , but then decided in 1848 to study medicine at McGill University . He graduated in 1851 and continued his studies in Edinburgh at the Royal College of Surgeons . After a long stay in Europe, he returned to Montreal in 1854 and opened a doctor's office there. He also taught surgery at the Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal . As the first surgeon in Canada and one of the first world he removed 1863 of cancer affected kidney . In 1872 he was the first North American doctor to perform an ectomy of a tongue and a lower jaw.

In 1871, Hingston temporarily left the Hôtel-Dieu to establish the medical faculty at Bishop's College ; there he was its dean for a year . From 1875 he taught at the Montreal École de médecine et de chirurgie . He was their dean from 1887 and remained so when the school merged with the medical faculty of the Université de Laval in 1891 . In 1882 he was also appointed chief surgeon at the Hôtel-Dieu. Hingston was a co-founder of several medical advocacy groups. In addition to his main professional activity, he was director from 1875 and from 1895 president of the Sparkasse Banque d'Épargne de la Cité et du District , as well as president of the city's tram company.

Hingston served as mayor of Montreal from 1875 to 1877. During this time he devoted himself in particular to the fundamental reform of the urban health system. Because of his numerous medical achievements, he was knighted by Queen Victoria in 1895 . Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie Bowell named Hingston a senator in 1896 ; Until his death he was a member of the conservative parliamentary group. In 1870 Hingston was elected a member of the Leopoldina . He was President of the British Association for the Advancement of Science , Honorary President of the British Medical Association and, in 1906, Honorary President of the International Congress of Surgeons in Paris .

Web links

• William Hales Hingston . In: Dictionary of Canadian Biography . 24 volumes, 1966–2018. University of Toronto Press, Toronto ( English , French ).
• Biography on the website of the city administration (French)
• William Hales Hingston - biographical information on the website of the Canadian Parliament (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Member entry of Sir William Hales Hingston at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on November 29, 2016.