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Brentford Occupations: Doctor

Whilst looking at earlier censuses I came across references to the Dispensary in New Brentford, as far as I can make out it was at 176 High Street, and this fits with published descriptions of its location 'opposite St Lawrence's Church'.

'Surgeons' are recorded in trade directories and censuses: the census provides their home address, sometimes they had a surgery at a different address (this can be found in trade directories). 295 High Street was a surgery and / or doctor's residence for over 100 years (earliest reference found so far is 1839) and is remembered by a number of contributors. Other sources include wills and newspaper accounts.

High Street sightings of surgeons up to 1940 period (grouped by address then date):

• William Ralfs, 1826 - 1851 (MRCS: Member Royal College of Surgeons, 1826 trade directory, 1851 census), 31 High Street
• Samuel Ralfs, son of above, 1861 - 1878, 31 High Street
• Henry Charles Ralfs, 1871 - 1874, 31 High Street
• Francis Bonn(e)y, 1839 - 1841, 32 High Street
• Richard Harris, 1881, 59 High Street
• Athelstane Da Costa Stoute MD MRCP MRCS DOMS, 1940, 134 High Street
• Cooper and Farrell, Dispensary, 1839, 176 High Street
• John Farrel, surgeon, 1839 and 1841, 181 High Street
• Richard Galvin, surgeon assistant, 1841, 181 High Street
• William Carter, surgeon MRCS London Licentiate of Apothecaries Company London in general practice, 1851, 181 High Street
• Joseph Williams, MRCS licentiate of Apothecary Society GP, 1861 - 1881, 181 High Street
• Frederic Newton Williams MB, surgeon, medical officer & public vaccinator No 4 district Brentford & certifying factory surgeon, 1890 - 1920, 181 High Street
• George Cooper, referred to in an 1829 inquest as a surgeon of Brentford, at 209 High Street in 1841 and 1851 censuses
• Edward Septimus Earle, 1871 - 1881, 209 High Street
• Henry B Brooks, surgeon and apothecary, 1851, 278 High Street
• Henry Richards, general practitioner MRCS London, 1839 - 1851, 295 High Street
• Edward Davis, Kings College London GP, 1861 - 1878, 295 High Street
• Henry Bott, MRCS LRCP London, 1881 - 1913 (in 1913 he was 'medical officer to Brentford Urban District Council & hospital superintendant'), 295 High Street
• Alan Dakers Gowans MB, CHB (Glasgow), 1928 - 1940, 295 High Street
• Reginald Cavan Neil, 1928 - 1933, 295 High Street
• Dr Moore, 1933 - 1940, 295 High Street
• Richard Harris, surgeon MRCS Eng, acting as assistant, 1871, 301 High Street
• Joseph S Gubbins, LRCP & S Edin., 1901, 26 Market Place; 1911 - 1924: 29 Ealing Road
• will 1804
• Joseph Pitt, surgeon, possibly the Butts or north side of High Street, died 1815
• Henry John Ratcliffe, the Butts (reference from will of Frances Bourne, 1855 and 1856)
• Robert Wallace Johnson qualified as a ‘doctor in physic’ by 1769
• Oliver and Ansell, (F.) Surgeons and Apothecaries, Brentford (Wilkes' Universal British Directory 1797)
• John Ansell, surgeon of Brentford, witnessed will of John Francis Randall in 1792
• Lewis Bentley Oliver, surgeon, New Brentford (1826 Pigot)
• James William Rutherford, surgeon, Old Brentford (1826 Pigot); will 1833
• Edward Selleck Hare, surgeon and apothecary of Brentford, will 1838

Page published March 2011; updated July 2012