William Robert Wills Wilde
1815–76
Irish surgeon and statistician. Father of Oscar Wilde (ODNB). Licentiate of the College of Surgeons, Dublin, 1837. Studied at the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital and the Hunterian Museum in London, and the Allgemeines Krankenhaus in Vienna; also in Heidelberg and Berlin. Practised as an eye and ear specialist in Dublin from 1841; established St Mark’s Hospital and Dispensary for Diseases of the Eye and Ear in Dublin. Knighted, 1864.
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ODNB
Bibliography
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.
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