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James Adey Ogle

1792 – 1857

English physician

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Lived 1792 – 1857 (aged 64). James Adey Ogle was a British physician.

James Adey Ogle (1792–1857) was an English medical doctor.

Life He was born on 22 October 1792 in Great Russell Street, London, where his father Richard Ogle had a good practice as a general practitioner. In 1808 he was sent to Eton College, under Joseph Goodall, staying two years. In Lent term 1810 he entered as a commoner of Trinity College, Oxford, obtaining a scholarship in the following year. In Easter term 1813 he obtained a first class in mathematics.

Ogle became a medical student at the Windmill Street school. From 1814 he visited medical schools in France, Italy, and Germany. He also spent some winter sessions in Edinburgh, studying under Professors Gregory, Duncan, Hamilton, Gordon, Home, and Jamieson. Returning to London, he was a student at the Middlesex Hospital, and then at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, and proceeded to the degrees of M.A. and M.B. at Oxford in 1816 and 1817 respectively. Settling in Oxford, he graduated M.D. in 1820, and was appointed mathematical tutor of his college, Trinity, the same year. One of his pupils was John Henry Newman, who became a friend. Richard Jeston Ogle (c.1826 –?). The third son, Dr. William Ogle (1827/1828–?), became superintendent of statistics in the registrar-general's office. Octavius Ogle (1828/1829–?).

Of the daughters (including one pair of twins ):

Janet (1821–1890) never married Amelia (1822–1872) married in 1856 James Bowling Mozley. Mary (1823/4–?) married the Rev. Charles Walter Payne Crawfurd, and was mother of Raymond Crawfurd. Isabella Henrietta (1832–), the youngest, married in 1855 the Rev. Charles Terry, who was heir to the Pettiward Estate.

After the death of Amelia, Caroline (by then herself a widow) lived with Mozley and assisted in his parish work at Shoreham, until his death.

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English physician

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James Adey Ogle was born on 22 October 1792.

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James Adey Ogle died on 25 September 1857.

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James Adey Ogle was a physician.

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James Adey Ogle was British.

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· Wikipedia: James Adey Ogle

· Wikidata: Q17423615

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