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3 unusual facts about William James MacNeven


Lent Homestead and Cemetery

The small graveyard contains not only the graves of family members, but also that of Irish revolutionary and physician William James MacNeven who died in 1841 and who had stayed with the Riker family.

William James MacNeven

This Baron MacNeven was William O'Kelly MacNeven, an Irish exile physician, who for his medical skill in her service had been created an Austrian noble by the Empress Maria Theresa.

In 1807, he delivered a course of lectures on clinical medicine in the recently established College of Physicians and Surgeons.



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