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5 unusual facts about Sir Patrick Dun


Royal College of Physicians of Ireland

Among the famous past presidents of the College were William Fetherstone Montgomery, Sir Patrick Dun (1681–93), Henry Marsh (1841), Robert James Graves (1843), William Stokes (1849), Sir Dominic Corrigan (1859–1863).

Sir Patrick Dun

In 1815 Sir Patrick Dun's Hospital was founded and named in his honour, by the College of Physicians, noted physicians William Stokes and of Robert James Graves served in the hospital.

Sir Patrick Dun's Hospital

It is a granite faced building that is said to have been influenced by George Papworth.

James Craig (1861–1933), physician to the hospital, was a professor of medicine and an independent TD.

Sir Patrick Dun’s Hospital was a hospital and school for physicians on Grand Canal Street, Dublin which opened in 1808 and was named after the Irish physician Sir Patrick Dun.



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