- GB-2014-WSA-15516
- Person
- 1805-1896
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.