Health

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Doctors

ASHLEY, John. Born about 1785 at Hartshead. Qualified in 1812 at Edinburgh. (Surgeon 1830 Baines Directory). Practice was at Long Fold (opposite the Cross Keys). See Ramble No. 6 (1857 PO Directory, Roberttown)

BENNETT, Joseph Blacker, born c. 1819 at Almondbury. Market Place, Cleck (1857 PO Directory); 1861 at Low House, Cleckheaton. Stained glass window at St. John's church dedicated to his memory.

BOOTH, James, Surgeon, Millbridge (1830 Baines Directory) (1857 PO Directory, Gomersal)

CARR, Henry. Surgeon, Gomersal (1857 PO Directory)

CARR, William, Surgeon, Gomersal (1822 Baines Directory; 1857 PO Directory)

ELLIS, John, born c. 1818 at Scotland. 1851 residing at Wilson's Buildings, Heckmondwike (1857 PO Directory, Northgate, Heck)

FARROW; Frederick, one of the first doctors on the scene of the Marsh Mills Chimney Disaster and gives evidence of the injuries to the deceased at the inquest.

FAWTHROP, Thomas, born c. 1787 at Halifax. 1851 at Main Street, Cleckheaton. MI at St. John's church.

GREENWOOD, John Brooke, born 1794 at Cleckheaton and son of the below Timothy. Surgeon, Gomersal (1822 Baines Directory) 

GREENWOOD, Timothy, born c. 1773. Surgeon, Cleckheaton (1830 Baines Directory), son-in-law of local author Thomas Wright.

KNOWLES; Thomas (1841 Heck census)

MACAULEY, George A (1851 Heck census)

MACUALEY, Thomas (1851 Heck census) nephew to George A Macauley above and pupil surgeon

MICKLETHWAITE, Benjamin. Surgeon, Gomersal (1857 PO Directory)

MORRISON, Robert Selkirk, born c. 1865 in Scotland. Married the daughter of Arthur Firth, Corn miller of the firm Firth & Blackburn, Spen Mills. Medical officer for Cleckheaton Local Board.

OLDFIELD, Robert. Surgeon, Heckmondwike (1857 PO Directory)

OLDFIELD, Thomas Birkhead. Doctor & Surgeon, Heckmondwike. Author of a series of newspaper articles "Rambles on the Slopes of Liversedge"

ROBSON, John (Surgeon Cleckheaton 1830 Baines Directory). 1841 at Upper Lane (Low House?). Married Christiana Sprott, daughter of a Scottish plantation owner in St. Kitts.

SANDERSON, William Bell. Surgeon, Heckmondwike (1830 Baines Directory)

SHAW, William. GP in partnership with Dr. William Robert Elstob Unthank at Claremont House, Cleckheaton (1921 census)

STEELE, Henry Octavius. Medical Officer for the Cleckheaton & Gomersal Local Boards.

SUTHERLAND, John Alexander, born Scotland and residing at Low House, Westgate, Cleckheaton in 1891 to his death in 1926.

SYKES, Benjamin Clifford, born 1822 in Cleckheaton.  Apprentice surgeon to the above John Robson in 1841. Graduated at St. Andrews. Married daughter of Samuel Law. Green Top, Cleckheaton (1857 PO Directory). Died 1891...Obituary on this site.

SYKES, Walter J. Medical Officer for the Liversedge Local Board (1875)

UNTHANK, William Robert Elstob. GP in partnership with Dr. William Shaw at Claremont House, Cleckheaton (1921 census)

WADSWORTH, Godfrey B. Surgeon, Gomersal (1857 PO Directory)

WALLACE, Edward James, born in Italy to Scottish parents, his father being Chief Engineer to the King of Naples. Residing at Low House, Westgate, Cleckheaton in 1881.

WEBSTER, Rawson. Surgeon, Heckmondwike (1830 Baines Directory)

WHITEHEAD, John. Assistant surgeon in 1841 to the above Thomas Knowles.

WILSON, James W. Surgeon, Hightown (1857 PO Directory)