DELAGARDE

Philip Chilwell ( son of a clergyman at Jersey ). b. 1797; ed. at Exeter gr. sch.; apprenticed to Peppin and Barnes, surgeons, Exeter; house surgeon St. Bartholomew’s hospital, London 25 Sep. 1818; M.R.C.S. Aug. 1819, hon. F.R.C.S. 1843; surgeon Eye infirmary, Exeter 1836; surgeon Devon and Exeter hospital, Exeter 1841, afterwards senior surgeon; ophthalmic surgeon and after the retirement of Barnes, the most popular operator in the West of England; mayor of Exeter, Nov. 1834 to 1 Jany. 1836; sheriff of Exeter 1832–33; author of A treatise on Cataract 1821; A supplement to the account of the church of St. Andrew, Cullompton and its mural paintings in Spreate’s Sketches of churches in Devon 1842; A brief commentary on the construction of hospitals 1870, and Nursing Sisterhoods , a pamphlet. d. 23 Southern hay, Exeter 17 Nov. 1871 in 74 year. Medical Times and Gazette 2 Dec. 1871 p. 694 ; Lancet 16 Dec. 1871 p. 868 .