William Robert Whatton FRS, FSA (17 February 1790, in Loughborough – 5 December 1835, in Portland Place) was a British surgeon and antiquarian.Richard Wright Procter
He was qualified MCRS on 11 March 1810. He served at Da Graça Hospital, Lisbon, treating the wounded from the Battle of Albuera. He treated the wounded from the Siege of Ciudad Rodrigo (1812), and the Siege of Badajoz (1812).
He was appointed resident to the Poorhouse, Manchester. On 15 September 1830 he attended William Huskisson, who had been struck by a train and died. He was elected staff of the Manchester Royal Infirmary in 1833.William Brockbank The Honorary Medical Staff of the Manchester Royal Infirmary 1830-1948, Manchester University Press, 1965
Works An address to the governors of the Royal Institution of Manchester, H. Smith, 1829; Kessinger Publishing, 15 January 2009, History of the Foundations in Manchester of Christ's College, Chetham's Hospital, and the Free Grammar School, Samuel Hibbert, John Palmer, William Robert Whatton, J. Greswell, Thomas Agnew and Joseph Zanetti, 1848, ASIN: B00AYV4TBG. History of the County Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster. William Robert Whatton, Edward Baines, BiblioBazaar, LLC,
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