Family tree - Kerr - Dr. William Kerr |
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The above is an engraving by William Say
of the full-length portrait,
printed London, 30th Nov 1819.
See full size
and alternative scans
here and
here.
William Kerr, M.D. (see here and here),
surgeon at Northampton Infirmary
[founded 1744, later Northampton Hospital] pre-1769 to 1821,
mar 2ndly to Mary Thompson [dau of --- Thompson, alderman of Northampton],
he helped found the new Northampton Hospital
at Billing Rd
(NOT Billings Rd), Cliftonville, Northampton, 1793,
this is where it is today, as the
Northampton General Hospital,
see
map,
[Canter, 2005]
says
"Dr William Kerr .. founded medical education in Northampton.
He was the principal fundraiser for a new, larger hospital on the present hospital site, which opened in 1793.",
portrait painted around the time the hospital was founded 1793,
at the time of the
1819 engraving of portrait he is referred to as:
"William Kerr M.D. Surgeon to the Northampton Infirmary upwards of 50 Years",
[Canter, 2005]
says he practised at the hospital until he was 83 (1821),
died 4th Sept 1824, age 86 yrs.


Detail of above portrait, showing the new
Northampton Hospital.
From close-up
here
(and larger
and full size).
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