1. An advocate and pioneer of the Royal Army Medical Corps, William MacCormac was perhaps the most decorated surgeon in Britain and he served as Serjeant Surgeon to Edward VII.
16 Facts About William MacCormac
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William MacCormac was born in Belfast, Ireland, the son of Dr Henry MacCormac, a notable Irish physician, and his wife Mary MacCormac, the daughter of a prominent Anglo-Irish family.
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Dr Henry William MacCormac was a well traveled physician and a lifelong proponent of the "open air theory" that stated that fresh air was conducive in order to prevent illnesses.
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The William MacCormac family was originally from County Armagh and descended from Cornelius William MacCormac, a high-ranking Irish naval officer.
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William MacCormac studied medicine and surgery at Belfast, Dublin and Paris, and graduated in arts, medicine and surgery at the Queen's University, Belfast, in which he afterwards became an examiner in surgery.
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William MacCormac began practice in Belfast, where he became surgeon to the General Hospital, but left it for London on his marriage in 1861 to Miss Katherine M Charters.
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William MacCormac became in this way an authority on gunshot wounds, and besides being highly successful as a surgeon was a very popular in society, his magnificent physique and temperament making him a notable and attractive personality.
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William MacCormac's services were required the following year, when the Prince had an accident to his knee.
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William MacCormac subsequently was appointed Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in September 1898.
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William MacCormac accompanied Lord Roberts on his visit to Kimberley after a siege of that city had been lifted in February 1900, and the following month visited Ladysmith when that city was relieved from a siege.
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William MacCormac left South Africa on board the German liner Kaiser in mid-March 1900.
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William MacCormac is buried with his wife, Katherine Maria MacCormac, at Kensal Green Cemetery, London.
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Dr William MacCormac was the uncle of Sierra Leonean physician, Dr John Farrell Easmon.
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When William MacCormac served as a house surgeon to Queen Victoria, he invited Easmon to serve as his understudy due to the latter's distinguished academic career.
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However, Easmon turned down William MacCormac's offer and position, and instead chose to serve as a medical doctor in Freetown, Sierra Leone, and the Gold Coast.
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Besides treaties on surgical operations, antiseptic surgery, and numerous contributions to the medical journals, William MacCormac was the author of works under the Red Cross and of an interesting volume commemorating the centenary of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1900.