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Richard Middlemore, the UK's top eye surgeon (1800s) from Birmingham

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Stephen2020

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I think Richard Middlemore deserves more recognition than he ever has had. Not even a blue plaque as far as I know. He worked at Birmingham hospitals, wrote books and gave lectures. He also had a clinical practice at 23 Temple Row which building doesn't exist probably, because of the destruction created by the massive Rackhams. I think his building was where there is now a goods entrance at the rear of Rackhams????
His nephew was Birmingham MP Sir John Middlemore.
 
Also, I have been writing this 'middlemores' blog, I don't know if anyone may find it interesting?

middlemores.wordpress.com

middlemores

Saddles, bicycle parts etc. of the company known as Middlemore/Middlemore and Lamplugh/Middlemores and the Middlemore family members. Also items on Lamplugh and the Lamplugh family.
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John Throgmorton Midddlemore features in the this thread concerning the Middlemore Child Emigration Homes..

Middlemore Children’s Emigration Homes

Spurred on by a plaintive post by a Jeanie Ellis on another blog, who posted an Emigration Form for her old Great Uncle, Jim Cooper...who was sent to Halifax, Nova Scotia in Canada from the Middlemore Homes in 1905, for a 'better life'.......so I turned to Peter Higginbotham for some more info...
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He gets a mention on the short thread Eye Infimary...

Eye Infirmary

I thought I'd share my discovery. I was googling an ancestor ...as you do. I googled John Pugh toolmaker and found him in 1840's medical journals/ articles written by an eye surgeon at the Birmingham Eye Infirmary. Google seem to be adding some free view books to their collection. I couldn't...
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Stephen2020 said:
I think Richard Middlemore deserves more recognition than he ever has had. Not even a blue plaque as far as I know. He worked at Birmingham hospitals, wrote books and gave lectures. He also had a clinical practice at 23 Temple Row which building doesn't exist probably, because of the destruction created by the massive Rackhams. I think his building was where there is now a goods entrance at the rear of Rackhams????
His nephew was Birmingham MP Sir John Middlemore.
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Certainly should get a mention in the Notable Brummies Thread. Here is his obituary from March 1891, Birmingham Daily Post.

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Pedrocut, thanks for these additions to the thread, that last one was a great read. He was such a good man, and the £2000 and £1000 he donated would probably be around £399,000 in today's money. Of the brothers, William owned the saddle company, jointly with James for 10 years, until James retired, James also wrote at least one book.
 
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