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Lombe Athill (3 December 1827 – 14 September 1910) was a Northern Irish obstetrician and gynaecologist. Hailing from Ardess,
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in
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, he studied at the
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, and obtained his licence to practice from the
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in 1847. That year, he became the surgeon to a charitable dispensary in Fleet Street, Dublin, and then dispensary doctor of the district of Geashill in King's County from 1848 to 1850. He began working as an assistant physician at the
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in 1851. In November 1875, he was elected master of the hospital, and was one of the leading experts on gynaecology in the country at the time. He was elected president of the Irish College of Physicians in 1888.


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* * 1827 births 1910 deaths Gynaecologists from Northern Ireland Obstetricians from Northern Ireland Medical doctors from County Fermanagh Presidents of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland Surgeons from Northern Ireland 20th-century medical doctors from Northern Ireland 19th-century Irish medical doctors {{UK-med-bio-stub