Robert William Whitty Cryan (1827–1881) was an Irish medical doctor, professor of Anatomy and Physiology at the

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in Dublin, Ireland, as well as a lecturer on anatomy and Physiology at the Carmichael School of Medicine in Dublin

Medical career

Robert Cryan lived at 54 Rutland Square, (now called

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), Dublin, Ireland, and was licensed to practice medicine in 1847 by the

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. In 1849 he joined the King and Queen's College of Physicians as Licentiate in Medicine. Some time later Cryan was Elected Physician at St Vincent's Hospital on

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where he engaged in clinical practice and teaching. Cryan lectured on anatomy and physiology in the Carmichael School of Medicine. Shortly after the founding of the Medical School of the

in Ireland, Cryan was appointed Professor of Anatomy and Physiology where he taught until his death in 1881. In 1873 Cryan was elected a Fellow of the King and Queen's College of Physicians and he was a member of the

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in Dublin.

Personal

Cryan was the son of Robert Cryan and Mary Anne Cryan of

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. He had two sisters, Mary Anne and Belinda, two half brothers, Peter, (also a doctor), John, and a half sister, Bridget. He was married to Mary Whitty, daughter of Nicholas and Mary Whitty, and had one son, a writer, Robert William Whitty Cryan. Cryan died at age 54 at his home in Dublin on 17 February 1881 and left a "considerable fortune" to his family. Cryan is buried at Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Cryan, Robert Irish anatomists Medical doctors from Dublin (city) 1827 births 1881 deaths People from Boyle, County Roscommon 19th-century Irish people