Letter from Thomas Richard Jessop, surgeon at the Leeds General Infirmary

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Supplying a reference for Walter Henry Brown, during his tenure as Medical Assistant at the Leeds General Infirmary.

Biography or history

Thomas Richard Jessop (1837-1903), was a surgeon from Brighouse, Yorkshire. He studied at the Leeds School of Medicine and worked as a surgeon at the Leeds General Infirmary from 1856.


He also taught at the Leeds School of Medicine, as Demonstrator of Anatomy in 1865 and later Lecturer on Surgery. During his tenure, the School merged with the Yorkshire College of Science to become part of Victoria University in 1884, and Jessop became the first Professor of Surgery there.


Throughout his time at the Infirmary and School of Medicine, he also ran a private medical practice in Park Square, Leeds. He had become a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1862, by 1901 he was Vice President.


He had two wives: Isabel Blackburn and Lena Cardwell. He died in 1903. One of his daughters, Isabella Wellesley Jessop (1872-1936), went on to marry Berkeley G.A. Moynihan (1865-1936), first Baron Moynihan.



Source: For a full biography, see: 'Jessop, Thomas Richard (1837-1903)', Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Online: http://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/biogs/E002361b.htm [accessed 22 Jun 2016]


Hugh Dudley, ‘Moynihan, Berkeley George Andrew, first Baron Moynihan (1865–1936)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/35138, accessed 22 June 2016]

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