Sketches of the lives and works of the honorary medical staff of the Manchester Infirmary, from its foundation in 1752 to 1830, when it became the Royal Infirmary / by Edward Mansfield Brockbank.

  • Brockbank, E. M. (Edward Mansfield), 1866-
Date:
1904
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Credit: Sketches of the lives and works of the honorary medical staff of the Manchester Infirmary, from its foundation in 1752 to 1830, when it became the Royal Infirmary / by Edward Mansfield Brockbank. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    aged 60, and was buried in the family grave in the Collegiate Church. On his death it was written of Edward Hall: As an expert and successful operator few surgeons have exceeded him. Courteous in his manners, cheerful and engaging as a companion, sincere and valuable as a friend, society in him lost a most excellent member. Edward Hall, like his father, was a Jacobite, but too young to give active expression to his sympathies and get into mischief as many young fellows did, by joining the Manchester Regiment, raised to support the young Pretender in 1745. At this date he would be only about thirteen or fourteen, and we read nothing of him in the records of the time. It was not until the beginning of last century that it became known in Manchester that Edward Hall had been the chief, if not the only actor, in a Jacobite incident, which greatly excited the town in 1749. As a consequence of their joining the troops which followed Prince Charles Edward several of the officers of the Manchester Regiment were hanged and quartered in 1746, and as a warning to any fellow townsman of the rewards of disloyalty to the reigning house, the heads of Thomas Deacon (the son of