Sir Joseph De Courcy Laffan, 1st Baronet (8 May 1786 – 7 July 1848) was a noted Irish physician.
Laffan treated troops in the
Peninsular War, he was the personal physician (''Physician-in-Ordinary'') to
Queen Victoria's father the
Duke of Kent and also the
Duke of York
Duke of York is a title of nobility in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. Since the 15th century, it has, when granted, usually been given to the second son of English (later British) monarchs. The equivalent title in the Scottish peerage was Du ...
(an elder son of
King George III).
Laffan, the son of Walter Laffan, was born on 15 March 1786 in
Cashel in
County Tipperary,
Ireland and was educated at the lay college in
St Patrick's College, Maynooth, in the early 19th century. He was made a Baronet, of Otham in the County of Kent, in 1828, for treating the Duke of York for the dropsy. He died on 7 July 1848.
,
Dissertatio Medica Inauguralis de Usu Et Effectu DE COURCY LAFFAN, (Sir Joseph) the title becoming extinct on his death.
His brother was the Roman Catholic Archbishop Robert Laffan
Robert Laffan (died 3 July 1833) was an Irish Roman Catholic prelate who served as the Archbishop of Cashel and Emly from 1823 to 1833.
He was the son of Walter Laffan, Esquire, of Cashel in County Tipperary, Ireland, and a grandson of Richa ...
of Cashel.
References
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1786 births
1848 deaths
Alumni of St Patrick's College, Maynooth
People from Cashel, County Tipperary
Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom
Physicians-in-Ordinary
Medical doctors from County Tipperary