William Owen Williams
FRSE
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FRCVS (1860–1911) was a Yorkshire-born veterinarian of Welsh descent.
Life
He was born in
Bradford
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in 1860, the son of
William Williams and his wife Caroline Owen. Caroline died in 1867 when young William was only 7 years old.
Following his mother's death he moved with his father to
Edinburgh
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where his father took over the Dick Veterinary College, replacing Col H B Hallen. Young William was educated at the Royal High School in Edinburgh.
He trained as a veterinarian under his father at the original college location in Gayfield House, and also at the national French Veterinary School at Alfort. Then from 1886 worked with his father at the Williams Veterinary College on Elm Row at the top of
Leith Walk
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In 1897 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
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. His proposers were Sir William Turner
Sir William Turner (7 January 1832, in Lancaster, Lancashire, Lancaster – 15 February 1916, in Edinburgh) was an English anatomist and was the Principal of the University of Edinburgh from 1903 to 1916.
Life
Turner was born in Lancaster ...
, Sir Thomas Richard Fraser
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...
, James Geikie
James Murdoch Geikie PRSE FRS LLD (23 August 1839 – 1 March 1915) was a Scottish geologist. He was professor of geology at Edinburgh University from 1882 to 1914.
Life
Education
He was born in Edinburgh, the son of James Stuart Geikie a ...
and Robert Wallace. At this time he was living at "Johnville" in the Portobello
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Places Brazil
* Porto Belo
Ireland
* Portobello, Dublin
* Cathal Brugha Barracks, Dublin formerly ''Portobello Barracks''
New Zealand
* Portobello, New Zealand, on Ot ...
district.
On the death of his father in 1900 he became principal of the college and also inherited his father's blacksmith business on Rose Street. He also became editor of the Veterinary Journal. He left Edinburgh in 1905 to become Professor of Veterinary Medicine and Surgery at Liverpool University
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following the closure of the Williams College on Leith Walk in 1904.
Family
In 1885 he married Annie Christine Flint. They appear to have lived with William's father at a large Georgian house at 24 London Street for many years.[Edinburgh Post Office Directory 188]
Publications
*''The Principles and Practice of Veterinary Medicine''
References
1860 births
1911 deaths
Medical doctors from Bradford
British veterinarians
Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Fellows of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons
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