Robert Liveing

Robert Liveing (1834–1919) was an English physician and pioneer of dermatology.

Biography Robert Liveing matriculated in 1852 at Christ's College, Cambridge, graduating there BA in 1856, MA in 1860, MB in 1861, and MD in 1865. At Middlesex Hospital he was physician to the skin department from 1879 to 1888, and retired in 1888 to become consulting physician to the skin department.

According to the dermatologist Henry Renwick Vickers (1911–1993), the first four appointments of dermatologists to teaching hospitals in the UK were: Sir William Jenner in 1859, Tilbury Fox in 1860, Robert Liveing in 1879, and Sir Malcolm Morris in 1882.

Liveing was a member of the Athenaeum Club and vice-president of the Alpine Club in 1869 and 1870.

Family Robert Liveing had seven sisters and three brothers, two of whom were Edward Liveing (1832–1919) and George Downing Liveing (1827–1924). On 15 August 1866 in Blendworth, Hampshire, Robert Liveing married Adelaide Mary Dorothea Hawker (1832–1906), a daughter of Admiral Edward Hawker and his first wife Joanna Naomi, née Poore. Robert and Adelaide Liveing had a son, Charles Hawker Liveing (1872–1934), and two daughters, and Helen Adelaide Liveing (1870–1893).

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