Andrew Halliday (physician) explained

Honorific Prefix:Sir
Andrew Halliday
Honorific Suffix:KH, MD
Birth Date:17 March 1782
Birth Place:, parish of Dryfesdale, Dumfries, Scotland
Death Place:Dumfries, Scotland
Resting Place:Saint Michael's, Dumfries, Dumfries and Galloway, UK[1]
Nationality:Scottish
Other Names:Andrew Hallidie
Alma Mater:University of Edinburgh
Occupation:physician
Years Active:1806-1837
Known For:Royal physician to William IV and Queen Victoria, military surgeon, author, reformer
Notable Works:Annals of the house of Hanover; A General View of the Present State of Lunatics, and Lunatic Asylums; The West Indies: the Nature and Physical History of the Windward and Leeward Colonies
Spouse:Helen Carmichael[2]
Parents:Thomas Halliday, esq. and Margaret Porteous
Relatives:Andrew Smith Hallidie, nephew

Sir Andrew Halliday, KH (also spelt Hallidie; 17 March 1782 in Copewood, parish of Dryfesdale, Dumfries  - 7 September 1839 in Dumfries) was a Scottish physician, reformer, and writer.[3] [4] [5]

Biography

He was born in Copeland, Dryfesdale in Dumfriesshire.[6] [7]

When he was nine years old, Halliday had to earn his own living by tending cattle because of his father's financial problems. He later advanced himself by qualifying as a schoolteacher.[3] Halliday subsequently entered the University of Edinburgh and started training for the Presbyterian ministry, but switched to medicine, his preference. He graduated with an MD on 24 June 1806 from the University of Edinburgh with a thesis entitled Latin: De pneumatosi that he later published as a book. After travelling in Russia, he set up in practice at Halesowen, Shropshire.

In 1807, he became a surgeon in the 13th Light Dragoons.[3] Whilst in the British Army, Halliday served in the Napoleonic Wars in Portugal, Spain, and the West Indies, at the Siege of Bergen op Zoom (1814) and the Battle of Waterloo.[8] [9] [10]

He was later the domestic physician to the Duke of Clarence and St Andrews (who became William IV), and traveled on the continent with him. In 1817, he was made a licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and, in 1819, of the Royal College of Physicians, London. While traveling on the continent, he became familiar with the medical applications of iodine, introducing it to Britain upon his return in 1819 and publishing an article on it in 1821.[11] [12] [13] He was appointed a Knight of the Royal Guelphic Order in 1820 and a Knight Bachelor in 1821. In August 1827 he was elected a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.[8] In 1829, he helped to establish King's College London.[3] He also served as the majesty's justice of the peace for the county of Middlesex.[2]

He was appointed Deputy Inspector-General of hospitals in the West Indies in 1832, but returned to his native Dumfries in 1837 because of ill health.[3] He died at Huntingdon Lodge in Dumfries on 7 September 1839.[8]

Halliday was the first physician to the Seamen's Hospital Society, which was established in 1821 with the purpose of helping people currently or previously employed in the Merchant Navy or fishing fleets. Halliday was the royal physician to William IV and to Queen Victoria. Before and after his military service he publicized the deplorable state of British and Irish insane asylums. He wrote Annals of the house of Hanover and The West Indies: the Nature and Physical History of the Windward and Leeward Colonies, published in 1826 and 1837, respectively.

His nephew, Andrew Smith Hallidie, promoted the Clay Street Hill Railroad in San Francisco, the world's first practical cable car system.[14]

Bibliography

See main article: Andrew Halliday (physician) bibliography.

Halliday also contributed obituaries to The Gentleman's Magazine.[15]

External sources

Notes and References

  1. Book: M'Dowall, William . Chapter VI: Along the Northern Wall . https://archive.org/details/memorialsstmich00mdogoog/page/n84/mode/1up . Memorials of St. Michael's: the Old Parish Churchyard of Dumfries . Adam and Charles Black . Edinburgh . 1876 . 903979287 . 65 . Internet Archive.
  2. Book: Burke . John . John Burke (genealogist) . 1835 . Hallidays, of Scotland . A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank, but uninvested with heritable honours . https://archive.org/details/genealogicalheral02burk . 2 . London, UK . . 133 . . 2014-03-01. For a CD-ROM edition, see Book: History of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland . 2007 . 9781847271747 . 153551949 . Chilmark . S&N.
  3. Book: Rogers . Charles . 1871 . Monuments and monumental inscriptions in Scotland . live . 1 . London, UK . C. Griffin for the Grampian Club . 287–288 . 681882749 . https://archive.org/stream/monumentsmonumen01rogeiala#page/287/mode/1up . 2007-09-13 . 2014-02-24.
  4. .Web site: Halliday . 6 May 2010 . The Scottish Nation . Electric Scotland USA LLC . Muskegon, MI, USA + Chatham, Ontario, Canada . 8 May 2010 .
  5. 10.1353/jsh.2007.0017 . Robert A. . Houston . Winter 2006 . Poor Relief and the Dangerous and Criminal Insane in Scotland, c. 1740-1840 . . 40 . 2 . 453–476 . . Fairfax, VA, USA . 143552648 . Also available at Web site: Poor Relief and the Dangerous and Criminal Insane in Scotland, c. 1740-1840 . R. A. Houston . 8 May 2010.
  6. Book: Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002. July 2006. The Royal Society of Edinburgh. 0-902-198-84-X. 1 September 2016. 24 January 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20130124115814/http://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf. dead.
  7. Web site: History of the Burgh of Dumfries . Electric Scotland . 2023-07-25.
  8. Web site: Halliday, Andrew (1781-1839) (DNB00). Moore. Norman . Sir Norman Moore, 1st Baronet. 24. 110–111. 2014-05-01.
  9. Book: Munk . William . William Munk . 1878 . The roll of the Royal College of Physicians of London: comprising biographical sketches of all the eminent physicians whose names are recorded in the Annals . 3 . 2d ed., rev. and enl. . London, UK . . 211–212 . 681752020 . 2027/njp.32101074741115 .
  10. Cook . G C . Andrew Halliday, Kt FRCPE (1781–1839): Service in the Napoleonic Wars and West Indies, and First Physician to the Seamen's Hospital Society . Journal of Medical Biography . SAGE Publications . 12 . 3 . 2004 . 0967-7720 . 10.1177/096777200401200306 . 136–140.
  11. An Historical Essay on the Progress of the Medical Sciences in Great Britain and on the Continent During the last Six Months of 1821 . London Medical and Physical Journal . . 0267-0259 . XLVII . January 1822 . A. B. . Granville . London, UK . J. Souter . 32 . 2015-10-30.
  12. Book: Hooper, Robert . The Physician's Vademecum . 1833 . 559855461 . London . 364 . 2015-10-30.
  13. Lecture on the Use of Iodine in the Cure of Diseases . Michael . Ryan . 204 . London Medical and Surgical Journal . 3 . Renshaw and Rush . London, UK . 1833. 560767046.
  14. Web site: Cable Car Inventor - Andrew Hallidie - 1873 . Edgar Myron . Kahn . June 1940 . California Historical Society Quarterly . San Francisco . 8 May 2010 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110517175611/http://www.sfmuseum.net/bio/hallidie.html . 17 May 2011 .
  15. Norman . Moore . Sir Norman Moore, 1st Baronet . revised by Patrick Wallis . Halliday, Sir Andrew (1782–1839) . 2004 . 10.1093/ref:odnb/12013 . 1890 . subscription . 4 October 2013.

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