William Hey (surgeon)
http://dbpedia.org/resource/William_Hey_(surgeon) an entity of type: Thing
William Hey (23 August 1736 – 23 March 1819) was an English surgeon, born in Pudsey, West Riding of Yorkshire, the son of Richard Hey and his wife Mary Simpson; John Hey and Richard Hey were his brothers. He was a surgeon at Leeds General Infirmary from its opening in a temporary building in 1776, and senior surgeon from 1773 to 1812.
rdf:langString
rdf:langString
William Hey (surgeon)
rdf:langString
William Hey
rdf:langString
William Hey
xsd:date
1819-03-23
rdf:langString
Pudsey, Leeds
xsd:date
1736-08-23
xsd:integer
22025955
xsd:integer
1122279791
xsd:date
1736-08-23
rdf:langString
William Hey. Stipple engraving.
xsd:date
1819-03-23
rdf:langString
Surgeon, Politician
rdf:langString
William Hey (23 August 1736 – 23 March 1819) was an English surgeon, born in Pudsey, West Riding of Yorkshire, the son of Richard Hey and his wife Mary Simpson; John Hey and Richard Hey were his brothers. He was a surgeon at Leeds General Infirmary from its opening in a temporary building in 1776, and senior surgeon from 1773 to 1812. He gave his name to Hey's amputation (a tarso-metatarsal amputation), Hey's internal derangement (dislocation of the semilunar cartilages of the knee joint), Hey's ligament (the semilunar lateral margin (falciform margin) of the fossa ovalis), and Hey's saw, used in skull surgery. Hey served as mayor of Leeds in 1787–88 and 1802–03. In 1783 he was President of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society. He also founded the Leeds Club. In March 1775, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. He was one of the founding members of the Leeds Library, alongside his friend Joseph Priestley and other surgeons, clergymen, leading industrialists and businessmen.
xsd:nonNegativeInteger
4511
xsd:gYear
1736
xsd:gYear
1819
