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William Wilde gained his medical doctorate in 1837. He was awarded a knighthood for his medical contributions involving the British census, and ran his own hospital in Dublin. He served as an oculist to Queen Victoria.

Wilde married poet Jane Francesca Elgee in 1851. The couple had two sons: Willie and Oscar.

Books Published

• The Narrative of a Voyage to Madeira, Teneriffe, and Along the Shores of the Mediterranean 1840.
• The Boyne and the Blackwater 1849Events January 23 Elizabeth Blackwell is awarded her MD by the Medical Institute of Geneva, New York, thus becoming the United States' first woman doctor January 31 Corn Laws abolished in the United Kingdom February 14 In New York City, James Knox Polk be
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