Benjamin Ward Richardson
1828–96
Physician. Practised at Mortlake, Surrey, from 1850, and in London from 1854. Member of the Royal College of Physicians, London, 1856; lecturer on materia medica, 1866. Held a number of posts at the Grosvenor Place school of medicine. Best known for his research into anaesthetics and for his involvement in public health and the sanitary movement. FRS 1867.
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ODNB
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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