Ernest, the new king of Hanover, on 8 August 1837 created him KCH; but at his urgent request allowed him to decline the assumption of the ordinary prefix of knighthood.
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His only contribution to literature was a series of papers on cholera, printed in The Lancet on 10 and 17 February and 3 March 1849.
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