Golding
Bird, M.D.
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Golding Bird 1814-1834.
Physician. Born in Downham Market, Norfolk, England. 1838 - took his MD
at St Andrews University. 1840 - MA. Licentiate of the College of
Physicians, London. Lectured in medical botany. Married 1842 and left a
widow and five children. He attended the British Association for the
Advancement of Science Meeting in Liverpool 1837.
Golding Bird was born at Downham,
Norfolk in 1814. He was educated at private school and apprenticed to
William Pretty, an apothecary in London from 1829-1833. He was a medical
student at Guy's Hospital from 1832, where he excelled, achieving the
Apothecaries' Company medal for botany and attracting the attention of
Addison and Sir Astley Cooper. He assisted Sir Astley Cooper with his
work on diseases of the breast. He was licensed to practise by
Apothecaries' Hall in 1836. Bird obtained his MD from St Andrews
University in 1838, and his MA in 1840. Bird was a lecturer on natural
philosophy at Guy's Hospital from 1836-1853, and also a lecturer on
medical botany and on urinary pathology. He was physician to the
Finsbury Dispensary in 1836. He became a licentiate of the College of
Physicians of London in 1840, and a Fellow of the College of Physicians
in 1845. He was an assistant physician at Guy's Hospital, and a joint
lecturer on materia medica at Guy's Hospital Medical School from
1843-1853. He lectured on materia medica at the College of Physicians in
1847 to 1849. He was a member of the Linnaean and Geological Societies,
and a Fellow of the Royal Society. He died in 1854
