Dr David Lloyd Roberts

FRSE Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's national academy of science and letters, judged to be "eminently distinguished in their subject". This soci ...

FRCP (1835–1920) was a 19th-century British gynaecologist and bibliophile.

Life

He was born in

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, the son of Robert Roberts, a cotton spinner. He was first apprenticed as a chemist before more formal education at Ripponden College. He then assisted Professor William Smith in his physiology classes at Owen's College in Manchester, being allowed to study Medicine in his spare hours before winning a place at St Andrews University. He did further postgraduate studies in

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and

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. He qualified MB in 1857and MD in 1859. In 1858 he began work as Surgeon in Ordinary at St Marys Hospital for Women and Children in Manchester. In 1880 he was elected a Fellow of the

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. His proposers were James Matthews Duncan, Sir

Alexander Russell Simpson Sir Alexander Russell Simpson FRCPE FRSE LLD (20 April 1835–6 April1916) was a Scottish physician and Professor of Midwifery at the University of Edinburgh. He invented the axis-traction forceps also known as the obstetrics forceps which ...

, Sir

Thomas Grainger Stewart Sir Thomas Grainger Stewart (23 September 1837, in Edinburgh – 3 February 1900, in Edinburgh) was an eminent Scottish physician who served as president of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (1889–1891), president of the Medico-C ...

, and Angus Macdonald. In 1885 he was appointed Gynaecological Surgeon to

Manchester Royal Infirmary Manchester Royal Infirmary (MRI) is a large NHS teaching hospital in Chorlton-on-Medlock, Manchester, England. Founded by Charles White in 1752 as part of the voluntary hospital movement of the 18th century, it is now a major regional and nati ...

. He retired from surgery in 1895 and died on 29 September 1920. He bequeathed a library of over 3000 largely medical books and 53 rare

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to the Royal College of Physicians in London and endowed them to provide the Lloyd Roberts Lectures which ran annually from 1921 to 1953. His literary collection of over 2000 books was bequeathed to the John Rylands Library.

Family

He was married to Martha Occleshaw daughter of W H Occleshaw. They had no children.

Artistic Recognition

His portrait was painted by

William Orpen Major Sir William Newenham Montague Orpen, (27 November 1878 – 29 September 1931) was an Irish artist who worked mainly in London. Orpen was a fine draughtsman and a popular, commercially successful painter of portraits for the well-to-do in ...

Publications

*''The Practice of Midwifery'' (1857) *''A Student's Guide to Practical Midwifery'' (1876) *''Sir Thomas Browne's Religio Medici'' (1892) *''The Scientific Knowledge of Dante'' (1914)

References

1835 births 1920 deaths People from Stockport Alumni of the University of St Andrews British gynaecologists Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh {{UK-med-bio-stub