Thomas Castle (c.1805–1837) [1] was an English botanical and medical writer.
Castle was born in Kent, and after leaving school became a pupil of John Gill, who as surgeon at Hythe; he went on to London to carry on his studies. He entered Guy's Hospital in 1826, and was a member of its Physical Society; in 1827 he was elected fellow of the Linnean Society, when he was living in Bermondsey Square in south London. [2]
Castle matriculated at The Queen's College, Oxford in 1830, and at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1831. [3] Subsequently he moved to Brighton, and committed suicide in 1837. [1] [2]
Castle's publications were: [2]
He also edited two editions of James Blundell's Diseases of Women, 1834 and 1837, and with Bernard Herbert Barton published a British Flora Medica, 1837, a second edition of which was edited in 1867 by John Reader Jackson. [2]
Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
public domain:
Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1887). "
Castle, Thomas".
Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 9. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
Thomas Castle (c.1805–1837) [1] was an English botanical and medical writer.
Castle was born in Kent, and after leaving school became a pupil of John Gill, who as surgeon at Hythe; he went on to London to carry on his studies. He entered Guy's Hospital in 1826, and was a member of its Physical Society; in 1827 he was elected fellow of the Linnean Society, when he was living in Bermondsey Square in south London. [2]
Castle matriculated at The Queen's College, Oxford in 1830, and at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1831. [3] Subsequently he moved to Brighton, and committed suicide in 1837. [1] [2]
Castle's publications were: [2]
He also edited two editions of James Blundell's Diseases of Women, 1834 and 1837, and with Bernard Herbert Barton published a British Flora Medica, 1837, a second edition of which was edited in 1867 by John Reader Jackson. [2]
Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
public domain:
Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1887). "
Castle, Thomas".
Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 9. London: Smith, Elder & Co.