Regius Professor of Surgery (Dublin)

The Regius Professor of Surgery is a company incorporated in 1852 and 1868 by Queen Victoria to the Regius Professorship appointed professor of surgery at the University of Dublin in Ireland.

In addition to this professorship, there is an older Regius Professorship for Medicine at Trinity College , the Regius Professor of Physic .

History of the professorship

On January 24, 1852, the Board of Trinity College in Dublin decided to establish a Chair in Surgery called a University Professor . The first professor was James William Cusack , whose duties had more to do with practical work because he never seems to have given a lecture. After Cusack's death on September 25, 1861, Robert Adam took over the office of University Professor.

On September 8, 1868, Queen Victoria signed the appointment of the chair to Regius Professur, which joined the older professorships of the same subject in Aberdeen , Edinburgh and Glasgow . The first Regius Professor was the incumbent University Professor Robert Adams, who held the office until his death.

He was succeeded by William Colles , a son of the better-known Abraham Colles , followed by George Hornidge Porter and finally Charles Bent Ball . Ball's successor was Edward Henry Taylor , the last Crown appointed Regius Professor of this chair. EH Taylor died in 1922, one year after Ireland gained independence from Great Britain. The following Regius Professors were elected by the Provost, an incumbent Regius Professor and three University Fellows.

In 2001 it was announced that the Regius Professor of Physic and the Regius Professor of Surgery would no longer be filled in the foreseeable future. The decision was confirmed by the University Board and University Council and was justified by a lack of funding.

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University professor

Surname	name suffix	from	to	Remarks
James William Cusack	BA, MB, MD, FRCSI	1852	1861	Cusack's curriculum vitae at the Royal Dublin Society mentions his appointment as University Professor in 1852 as being appointed Regius Professor. In a medical school response to a parliamentary question, Cusack signed as a University Professor while his colleague William Stokes signed as a Regius Professor. This means that the Regius Professorship can only be considered secure from 1868 onwards. At the same time it is Cusack's chair, which is later continued as a Regius Professorship.
Robert Adams		1861	1868

Regius Professor

Surname	name suffix	from	to	Remarks
Robert Adams		8 Sep 1868	Jan. 16, 1875	The first Regius Professor had previously succeeded Cusack as University Professor. He held office until his death. Adams is known for his contributions to heart disease and gout . According to him, and William Stokes is Stokes-Adams syndrome named. In addition to the Regius Professorship, he was honored as Surgeon to the Queen in Ireland.
William Colles	Esq., MD	1875	1891	William is a son of the better known surgeon Abraham Colles .
George Hornidge Porter		1891	1895
Charles Bent Ball	MD, M.Ch., FRCSI, Hon. FRCS England	1895	1916	Ball was also the King's Honorary Surgeon in Ireland.
Edward Henry Taylor	MD, M.Ch., FRCSI	1916	1922	After studying at Trinity College, Taylor continued his education, supported by a scholarship, also under Professor Eiselberg at the University of Vienna. From 1906 to 1916 Taylor taught at Trinity College before he took over the Regius Professorship in 1916.
William Taylor		1922
Charles Arthur Kinahan Ball	MD, M.Ch.	1933	1946	The prize, donated by his widow in 1964, for the two best graduates of the last academic year is named after Ball.
Adams Andrew McConnell		1946
John Seton Michael Pringle		1961
Nigel Alexander Kinnear		1967
Stanley Thomas McCollum	FRCSI, FRCS	1973
Thomas Patrick Joseph Hennessy		1984
vacant				Due to a lack of funding, the chair will no longer be filled for the time being.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m} History of the Surgery Department ( December 30, 2006 memento in the Internet Archive ) on the Trinity College website of the University of Dublin; Retrieved April 7, 2016.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p} Thomas Percy Claude Kirkpatrick: History of the medical teaching in Trinity college, Dublin and of the School of physic in Ireland . P. 21
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Entry on James William Cusack ( Memento of the original from April 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the Royal Dublin Society website; Retrieved April 9, 2016. 
4. ↑ The Dublin University Calender 1909–1910 , Vol. II. Longmans, Green and Co., London / New York / Bombay 1910, p. 11
5. ↑ ^{a b c} Minutes of Board Meeting 12 December 2001 (PDF) point 3/86; Retrieved April 10, 2016.
6. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Dublin University Calender for the Year 1900 . (PDF) Dublin University Press.
7. ↑ State, discipline, studies and revenues of the University of Dublin, and of Trinity College: report of Her Majesty's Commissioners on the Enhanced British Parliamentary Papers on Ireland website; Retrieved April 24, 2016.
8. ^ ^{A b} Eoin T. O'Brien: Dublin Masters of Clinical Expression II. Robert Adams (1791-1875) . (PDF) 2008
9. ^ Joseph Frank Payne:  Adams, Robert (1791–1875) . In: Leslie Stephen (Ed.): Dictionary of National Biography . Volume 1:  Abbadie - Anne. , MacMillan & Co, Smith, Elder & Co., New York City / London 1885 (English).
10. ↑ Robert Adams on whonamedit.com; Retrieved April 9, 2016.
11. ^ Announcement on the appointment of William Colles for appointment as Surgeon in Ordinary to her Majesty in Ireland, in the Edinburgh Gazette of November 26, 1875.
12. ↑ Connolly Norman:  Porter, George Hornidge . In: Sidney Lee (Ed.): Dictionary of National Biography . Volume 46:  Pocock - Puckering. , MacMillan & Co, Smith, Elder & Co., New York City / London 1896 (English).
13. ^ Communication on the knighting from Charles Bent Ball. In: Edinburgh Gazette , February 10, 1903.
14. ^ Ball, Sir Charles Bent (1851-1916) . In: Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Online , November 4, 2009, Royal College of Surgeons.
15. ^ ^{A b} Francis Galton, Edgar Schuster: Noteworthy Families . Echo Library, ISBN 978-1-4068-6190-7 .
16. ^ ^{A b c} Obituary for Edward Henry Taylor, MD, M.Ch., FRCSI , President of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and Regius Professor at Trinity College, Dublin in The British Medical Journal dated May 6, 1922. PMC 2416041 (freelance Full text)
17. ^ Announcement of the appointment of Charles Bent Ball (PDF) MD, FRCS as Honorary Surgeon to the King in Ireland. In: London Gazette , May 20, 1904.
18. ^ Seventy-Fifth Report of the Commissioners of Charitable Donations and Bequests for Ireland. Report of the Royal Commission on the University of Dublin (Trinity College); Taylor is named in the list of professors in the appendix to the report of the commission (p. 5).
19. ^ History of the School of Medicine on Trinity College, Dublin website; Retrieved April 24, 2016.
20. ^ Frank C. Crawley; Obituary for Sir William Taylor. In: Irish Journal of Medical Sciences .
21. ↑ Arthur Ball Price ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the list of awards from the Trinity College School of Medicine in Dublin; Retrieved April 9, 2016.  
22. ^ ^{A b c} Peter Froggatt: John Seton Michael Pringle. In: Dictionary of Ulster Biographies of the Ulster Historical Circle; Retrieved April 9, 2016.
23. ↑ Kate Newman: Adams Andrew McConnell. In: Dictionary of Ulster Biographies of the Ulster Historical Circle; Retrieved April 9, 2016.
24. ^ Biography of McConnell, Adams Andrew (1884–1972). In: Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Online , September 12, 2014, Royal College of Surgeons.
25. ↑ Biography of Pringle, John Seton Michael (1910–1975) in Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Online.
26. ↑ obituary Nigel A. Kennear. In: Irish Times , August 5, 2000.
27. ^ Obituary for ST Mc Collum. In: Irish Times , April 22, 1997.
28. ↑ Coleman Cassidy; Doctor's dilemma in Cavan. In: Hibernia , June 7, 1979; accessed on April 30, 2016.
29. ^ Obituary for ST Mc Collum. In: The Irish Times , April 22, 1997; accessed on April 30, 2016.
30. ^ Inspiring a universal influence. In: The Irish Times , February 6, 2001; accessed on April 30, 2016.