GULL

Sir William Withey , 1 Baronet ( youngest son of John Gull, barge owner, d. 1827 ). b. Col chester 31 Dec. 1815; M.B. London univ. 1841, M.D. 1846; F.R.C.P. Lond. 1848, censor 1859–61 and 1872–3, Gulstonian lecturer 1849, Harveian orator 1870; medical tutor Guy’s hospital 1841, lecturer 1843–56, physician and lecturer 1856–65; Fuller i an prof, of physiology, Royal Instit. 1847–9; D.C.L. Oxf. 1868, LLD. Camb. 1880, and Edinb. 1884; F.R.S. 3 June 1869; attended Prince of Wales when ill from typhoid fever Nov. to Dec. 1871; cr. baronet 20 Jany. 1872; phys. in ordinary to P. of Wales 24 Feb. 1872; phys. in ordinary to the queen 1887; pres. of Clinical soc. of Lond. 1872; pre-eminent as a clinical physician, the first to describe disease known as myxoedema 1873. d. 74 Brook st. London 29 Jany. 1890. bur. Thorpe-le-Soken, E ex, left personalty £344,023 besides landed estates. Midland Medical miscell. iii , 97–8 (1884), portrait ; I.L.N. lix , 612 (1871), portrait , and 1 Feb. 1890 p. 131, portrait .