William Tindal Robertson
1825–89
Physician. MD, Edinburgh, 1853. Physician to Nottingham General Hospital, 1854. Active as a speaker and organiser; member of Nottingham Town Council. Local secretary, British Association for the Advancement of Science meeting at Nottingham, 1866. Became blind from glaucoma and retired to Brighton in 1874. Remained active in local politics, becoming an MP in 1886. Knighted, 1888.
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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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