About John Kirby
Born 1781. John Kirby was a surgeon.
John Timothy Kirby (1781 – 26 May 1853) was the president of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) in 1823 and 1834.
Kirby obtained the Letters Testimonial of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) on 19 March 1805, and the Membership on 5 September 1808. In 1805 he graduated B.A., and, later in 1832, LL.B. and LL.D. in Dublin University. He had a large medical practice as well as a surgical one.
By 1832 Kirby had been to appointed to the Chair of Medicine in RCSI. With this new position Kirby closed his private medical school and presented his museum to RCSI. In 1834 Kirby was elected President of the college for a second time.
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