Letters from William Hey I to his nephew, William Sharp
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Letters from William Hey I to his nephew, William Sharp
Classmark: MS 1991/1/6
Creator(s): Hey, William (1736-1819)
Date(s): 11 Oct 1791-08 Feb 1792
Size and medium: 2 items
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/499356
Collection group(s): Medical Collections
Description
Two letters discussing various medical topics and William Sharp's medical training.
Biography or history
William Sharp (1769-1833) was a surgeon based in Bradford. He undertook his medical training at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, and was also apprenticed to his uncle, William Hey I in the 1780s. He married Anne Sharp (d1834) and had a daughter, Annie Sharp (d1846). His nephew was the physician and homoeopathist William Sharp (1805-1896), who was apprenticed to him in 1821 and also trained under William Hey II.
Sources:
Bernard Leary, ‘Sharp, William (1805-1896)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/25223, accessed 11 April 2016]
P.J. & R.V. Wallis, 'Eighteenth Century Medics (subscriptions, licences, apprenticeships)', (2nd edn, PHIBB Newcastle, 1988), p. 535.
Bradford Family History Society, 'The Cathedral Church of St Peter, Bradford
Monuments & Memorial Inscriptions within the building, summer 2015', document available online http://www.bradfordfhs.org.uk/
Provenance
The letters passed from William Sharp to his nephew on his death in 1833; who then in turn passed these on to his grandson, Dr Arthur Sharp, in 1896. Dr Sharp then gave them to the Faculty of Medicine, University of Leeds, in 1909.
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