Sir Richard Bolton McCausland (1810 - 8 July 1900) and Richard Bolton McCausland (1864 in Singapore - 9 October 1933 in Folkestone,

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) were father and son of the same name. Sir Richard was born in Ireland, became a barrister and served as Recorder of Singapore and Malaca, from 1856-1866. In 1868 he returned to Ireland to inherit the family estate at Cappaghduff, Co Mayo. His son was born in Singapore but moved to Ireland with his father at an early age. He became a notable surgeon at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. The 1901 Census records1901 Census Return for 79 Merrion Sq
/ref> his address as 79

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, a prestigious address in the heart of

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. He married Charlotte Maria McCausland, the daughter of the influential French Neurologist

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. In 1896 the first use of

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in Ireland was by McCausland when he carried out an operation to remove a needle from the hand of a parlor maid. The x-ray was performed at

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(this building is now the

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) and the operation was carried out at

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just four months after Rontgen's discover of X-Rays (called 'Shadow-graphs' at the time). In 1923, during the Irish Civil War, the McCausland family moved from Ireland to Folkestone in Kent. Charlotte later wrote:Charles-Edouard Brown-Séquard: The Biography of a Tormented Genius By Louis-Cyril Celestin, pg 229

We have left Ireland since 1923, life was no longer possible for the Loyalists. Our lives were threatened, especially because our only son, who had trained at Sandhurst Military School, joined the
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and had taken part in the last battles against the Germans, his heart being all for France.

McCausland's son, Charles was a notable Irish cricketer.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:McCausland, Richard Bolton 1864 births 1933 deaths Lawyers from Dublin (city) Straits Settlements judges British colonial judges in Asia Irish surgeons