Henry Wilson
1838–77
Irish ophthalmic surgeon. Illegitimate son of William Robert Wills Wilde, who trained him as an oculist. FRCS, Ireland, 1865. Surgeon to the Dublin Artillery. Principal surgeon, St Mark’s Ophthalmic Hospital, Dublin. Professor of ophthalmic and aural surgery, Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland, 1872. Author of Lectures on the theory and practice of the ophthalmoscope (1868).
Sources
Modern English biography
ODNB s.v. Wilde, Sir William Robert Wills
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.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
