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SHARP, WILLIAM, third son of Richard Sharp, Armley, near Leeds, Yorkshire, merchant, and Mary, dau. of John Turton, Gildersome, Yorks.; b. 21 Jan 1805; at Wakefield GS 1813-6; adm. 13 Jan 1818; left Dec 1820; articled to his uncle William Sharp, Bradford, Yorks., surgeon 1821; LSA 1826; MRCS 1827; MD Lambeth 1856; Suregon to Bradford Infirmary 1829-43; practised successively at Bradford and Hull; FRS 7 May 1840; Reader in Natural Philosophy, Rugby Sch, . 1849-50; became a homoeopathist 1852; President, British Homeopathic Congress, Leamington 1873; retired from practice 1877; owing to his initiative, “every public school in England now has its science teacher, and every town its local museum”; author, Therapeutics founded upon Organopathy and Antipraxy, 1886; m. 1st, 1833 Anne, dau. of Samuel Hailstone, Bradford, Yorks.; m. 2nd, 10 Mar 1836 Emma, sixth dau. of Rev. John Scott, Vicar of St. Mary’s, Hull; d. 10 Apr 1896. DNB.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.