EVANS
,
JOHN RHAIADORE
(
1790?
-
1850?
);
surgeon
;
b. in
Glantanat Isaf
,
Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant
, and educated at
Oswestry Grammar School
. He was tutored by
Hugh
Roberts
, a
surgeon
at
Llanfyllin
and then became
Sir
Benjamin
Brodie
's pupil. He became the
chief medical officer
of
Bangor Hospital
and subsequently a
lecturer in surgery
and one of the
medical officers
of the
Middlesex Hospital
and the
Royal Metropolitan Infirmary
. He was the
author of a number of medical papers
, e.g.
On the Remedial Evils attending the Life of the People
;
On Irritation of the Spinal Nerves
;
The remediable Influence of Oxygen on Vital Air.
Bibliography:
-
R. Williams
,
Montgomeryshire Worthies
, second ed.,
1894
Author:
Elwyn Evans, M.A., Aberystwyth
