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Francis Hawkins

フランシス・ホーキンス

Furanshisu Hōkinsu

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1794-07-30 (Bisley, Gloucestershire)
Died
1877-12-13 (London) age 83
Nationality
England
Languages
English
Residence History
Bisley, Gloucestershire → Oxford → London

Career

Occupations
Physician, Professor of Medicine, Registrar
Active Years
1813-1877
Affiliations
Royal College of Physicians, Middlesex Hospital, King's College London, General Medical Council
Memberships
Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians

Education

Merchant Taylors' School
Period: 1805-1812
Year of Graduation: 1812
Country: England
St. John's College, Oxford
Classics and Mathematics
Degree: M.D.
Period: 1812-1823
Year of Graduation: 1823
Country: England
B.A. 1816, B.C.L. 1819, M.B. 1820, M.D. 1823

Awards

Newdigate Prize
1813
Organization: University of Oxford
Result: winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Lectures on Rheumatism and some Diseases of the Heart and other Internal Organs

1826 Medical textbook

Lectures on rheumatism and diseases of the heart and other internal organs.

Bibliography

  • Lectures on Rheumatism and some Diseases of the Heart and other Internal Organs (1826)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
Admired Latin style in Harveian oration

Legacy

Accomplished physician, popular in professional circles, good scholar representing the old school of university physicians. His Harveian oration in 1848 was admired for its Latin style.

Trivia

  • Not to be confused with Francis Bisset Hawkins.