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Gilbert William Child

1832–96

Physician. BA, Oxford (Exeter College), 1854. MD 1859. Examiner in medicine, Oxford University, 1863; in natural science, 1867. Practised in Oxford until circa 1882. Wrote on sanitation, amongst other subjects. Fellow of the Linnean Society of London, 1868.

Sources

List of the Linnean Society

Modern English biography

Bibliography

Modern English biography: Modern English biography, containing many thousand concise memoirs of persons who have died since the year 1850. By Frederick Boase. 3 vols. and supplement (3 vols.). Truro, Cornwall: the author. 1892–1921.

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