Sir Henry Marsh, 1st Baronet (1790 – 1 December 1860) was an Irish physician and surgeon. He was born in

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in Ireland. He was one of the medical doctors associated with Basedow's syndrome, which is also known as Marsh's disease and currently as

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Biography

The son of the Rev. Robert Marsh of Killinane,

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, great-grandson of the Most Rev.

Francis Marsh Francis Marsh (23 October 1626 – 16 November 1693) was Archbishop of Dublin from 1682 to 1693. He had previously been Dean of Connor (1660–1661), Dean of Armagh (1661–1667), Bishop of Limerick, Ardfert and Aghadoe and Kilmore and Ardagh. ...

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, and Mary, daughter of Bishop

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. His mother, Sophia Wolseley, was a granddaughter of Sir Richard Woolsey 1st Bt., M.P., of Mount Wolseley,

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, whose wife was the daughter of Sir Thomas Molyneux, 1st Baronet, the first medical

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created in Ireland. Marsh originally wanted to engage in farming or in becoming a part of the

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, before acquiring a career in

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. After accidentally losing his right

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, injured during an operational procedure he was performing, he left his career in surgery. He was apprenticed to

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, whose uncle the Rev. Cecil Crampton was married to Marsh's aunt, Nicola Mary Marsh; he received his doctorate in medicine in

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in 1818. After some time in Paris he returned to Dublin and in 1820 was appointed physician at

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.Alfred Webb: ''A Compendium of Irish Biography''. Dublin, 1878 He established the Park Street Medical School in Dublin in 1822, with the cooperation of his colleagues, namely:

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, James William Cusack, Samuel Wilmot, and Arthur Jacob, among others. He taught pathology at this school until 1827. In 1827, he taught surgery at the

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. He later became a medical doctor for

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. In 1839, he was created a baronet. In 1840, he became president of the

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. He died suddenly at his residence in Merrion Square, Dublin, and was buried in

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. Marsh had married Anne (d. 1846), daughter of Thomas Crowe, of Ennis, county Clare, and widow of William Arthur; their son, Henry, a Major in the 3rd Dragoon Guards, (born 3 April 1821, died unmarried 27 May 1868), succeeded his father as the 2nd Baronet according to some sources. Sir Henry married a second time in 1856; she survived him and there were no children of that marriage.

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