J. William Stokes (1853–1901), U.S. Representative from South Carolina
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William Axton Stokes (1814–1877), Philadelphia attorney and Major in the American Civil War
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In the nineteenth century the Meath Hospital achieved worldwide fame as a result of the revolutionary teaching methods and groundbreaking research carried out by Robert Graves and William Stokes, physicians of the hospital.
Augusta Mayor William Stokes also expressed concern over Augusta bearing an unfair burden of mental health patients.
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).
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.