Joseph Toynbee

Joseph Toynbee FRS (30 December 1815"Dictionary of National Biography, Volumes 1-22 for Joseph Toynbee: Stow - Tytler (Vol 19), p. 1065." Ancestry.com, 2010. Retrieved 6 November 2020. – 7 July 1866) was an English otologist whose career was dedicated to pathological and anatomical studies of the ear.

Personal life Joseph Toynbee was born in Heckington, Lincolnshire on 30 December 1815, and baptised there on 2 January 1816."January 2nd 1816. Joseph, son of George and Elizabeth Toynbee. Abode: Heckington. Father's Occupation: Farmer." HECKINGTON PAR/1/6: Baptisms 1813 - 1842: No.158, p. 20. Lincolnshire Archives. Retrieved 6 November 2020. He was the thirdFamily Search (subscription required) son of fifteen children of the wealthy land owner and farmer George Toynbee (1783–1865). George's first wife and the mother of Joseph, was Elizabeth, (maiden surname of Cullen, 1785–1820)."Elizabeth, wife of George Toynbee junior, Farmer. Abode: Heckington Fen. Buried March 29th 1820. Age 35." HECKINGTON PAR/1/7: Burials 1813 - 1864: No.191, p. 24. Lincolnshire Archives. Retrieved 2 March 2020. Joseph's parents were married at Bracebridge, Lincolnshire, on 21 May 1811, by Licence."George Toynbee of Heckington Bachelor & Elizabeth Cullen of this parish, Spinster." BRACEBRIDGE PAR/1/8: Marriages 1809 - 1812: No.6, p. 2. Lincolnshire Archives. Retrieved 6 November 2020."Bracebridge : All Saints : "Parish Register" database, FreeREG marriage George Toynbee to Elizabeth Cullen 21 May 1811." FreeReg database transcription. Mick Claxton. File line number 320. Retrieved 6 November 2020.

After several years of private tuition, he attended King's Lynn Grammar School in Norfolk. At the age of seventeen he studied medicine. His first experience in medicine came when he was apprenticed to William Wade of the Westminster General Dispensary in Gerrard Street in London's Soho. He studied anatomy under George Derby Dermott (1802–1847) at Hunterian Medical School at the Great Windmill Street, and later gained a reputation as a prosector.

Joseph married Harriet Holmes, a daughter of Nathaniel Reynolds Holmes, on 4 August 1846, at St John's Church, Hampstead. The couple were married by Licence."London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1932 for Joseph Toynbee." Camden: St John, Hampstead: Marriages 1837 - 1851, No.293, p. 147.London Metropolitan Archives, Saint John at Hampstead, Register of marriages, P81/JN1, Item 076. Ancestry.com, 2010. Retrieved 6 November 2020. They had nine children together, including economic historian Arnold Toynbee (1852–1883), the Dante scholar Paget Toynbee (1855–1932) and the bacteriologist Grace Frankland (née Toynbee, 1858–1946).Cohen, S. (23 September 2004). Frankland [née Toynbee], Grace Coleridge (1858–1946), bacteriologist. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved 30 Jan. 2018, see link

Another son, Harry Valpy Toynbee (1861–1941), was the father of universal historian Arnold J. Toynbee, and archaeologist and art historian Jocelyn Toynbee.

He died on 7 July 1866, at 18, Savile Row, Mayfair, while conducting experiments with prussic acid and chloroform as a remedy for tinnitus."LAMENTED DEATH OF AN EMINENT PHYSICIAN." Morning Advertiser, Wednesday 11 July 1866, p. 3.The British Newspaper Archive: Findmypast Newspaper Archive Limited in partnership with the British Library. Retrieved 6 November 2020. Either one of these substances or their combination is to blame for his death. He was buried at St Mary's Church, Wimbledon, on 11 July 1866. Joseph's residence on the burial register was listed as Wimbledon. He lived at Beech Holme, Wimbledon."Surrey, England, Church of England Burials, 1813-1997 for Joseph Toynbee." St Mary Wimbledon: Burials 1849 - 1871, No.971, p. 122. Surrey History Centre; Woking, Surrey, England; Surrey Church of England Parish Registers; Reference: P5/1/13. Ancestry.com, 2013. Retrieved 6 November 2020. A drinking fountain dedicated to his memory stands near to his home.

Career He performed studies on the functionality of the Eustachian tube and tympanic membrane, and developed a form of tympanoplasty to restore function to the latter when damaged. When St. Mary's Hospital was founded in Paddington, he a became an aural surgeon and a lecturer on ear diseaseshis course of clinical lectures being published in 1855 and 1866. During this time period he composed two major works: "A Descriptive Catalogue of Preparations Illustrative of the Diseases of the Ear" (1857), and "The Diseases of the Ear: Their Nature, Diagnosis and Treatment" (1860). From his many dissections of "deaf ears", he studied ankylosis of the stapes.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in March 1842.

Austrian otologist Adam Politzer (1835–1920) penned biographies in French (1905) and German (1914) honoring Toynbee, whom Politzer regarded as a major influence.

Works On the structure of the membrana tympani in the human ear. Richard Taylor, London 1851 On the use of an artificial membrana tympani in cases of deafness : dependent upon perforation or destruction of the natural organ. J. Churchill, London 1857 A Descriptive Catalogue of Preparations illustrative of the Diseases of the Ear in the Museum of Joseph Toynbee. J. Churchill, London 1857 The Diseases of the Ear: Their Nature, Diagnosis, and Treatment. Blanchard and Lea, 1860 Hints on the Formation of Local Museums. Robert Hardwicke, 1863

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