Paulina Jermyn Trevelyan (1816-1866)
Paulina Jermyn Trevelyan (1816-1866) ’… was an English painter, married in May 1835 to Sir Walter Calverley Trevelyan, 6th Baronet. She is noted for having single-handedly made Wallington Hall in Northumberland a centre of High Victorian cultural life, and enchanting by her intellect and art, John Ruskin, Algernon Chales Swinburne, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Christina Georgina Rossetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Michael Rossetti, Thomas Carlyle, and John Everett Millais and other [...]
George Frederick D’Arcy Lambton 2nd Earl of Durham (1828-1879)
George Frederick D’Arcy Lambton 2nd Earl of Durham (1828-1879) ’… styled Viscount Lambton from 1831 to 1845, was a British peer…’ George Frederick D’Arcy Lambton 2nd Earl of Durham was a patient (Thomas Moore, Wilfred S Dowden (Ed.), The Journal of Thomas Moore: 1831-1835, (Associated University Presse, 1 Oct 1987). Page 1663) and advocate of homeopathy,
William Francis Cowper Temple 1st Baron Mount Temple (1811-1888)
William Francis Cowper Temple 1st Baron Mount Temple (1811-1888) ‘… PC known as William Cowper (pronounced “Cooper”) before 1869 and as William Cowper Temple between 1869 and 1880, was a British Liberal Party politician and statesman…’ Just before his death on 16th October 1888, William Francis Cowper Temple, 1st Baron Mount Temple wrote to James John Garth Wilkinson from Broadlands in Romsey: ‘… We shall be too happy to see you whenever you [...]
James Keir Hardie senior (1856-1915)
James Keir Hardie senior (1856-1915) ‘… was a Scottish socialist and labour leader, and was the first Independent Labour Member of Parliament elected to the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Hardie is regarded as one of the primary founders of the Independent Labour Party as well as the Labour Party of which it later was a part…’ Anon, The Parliamentary Debates (official Report).: House of Commons,Contains the 4th session of [...]
Henri Boiron (1906-1994) and Jean Boiron (1906-1996)
Henri Boiron (1906-1994) and Jean Boiron (1906-1996) (*photos used courtesy of Homéopathe International by Sylvain Cazalet at PHOTOTHÈQUE HOMÉOPATHIQUE) wer French homeopathic pharmacists who founded the famous Boiron Company. From http://boiron.ca/en/about-boiron/who-are-we/ ‘… Boiron was founded by twin brothers Jean and Henri Boiron, both pharmacists with keen scientific minds and an indomitable entrepreneurial spirit. Here are a few milestones that have shaped Boiron’s history over the years: [...]
Christopher Williams (1835-1881)
Christopher Williams (1835-1881) as a British Orthodox Physician who converted to homeopathy. He trained at Guys, and became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons. Christopher Williams practiced as a homeopath in Wolverhampton and in Belfast, ‘… We regret to have to announce the sudden death at a comparatively early age of another colleague,Mr Williams, [...]
Henry Hamilton Johnston (1858-1927)
Henry “Harry” Hamilton Johnston (1858-1927) GCMG, KCB, was a British explorer, botanist, linguist and colonial administrator, one of the key players in the “Scramble for Africa” that occurred at the end of the 19th century. Henry Hamilton Johnston was an advocate of homeopathy ‘… the homeopathic doctor who usually attended us was on a holiday; his inept young assistant would not recognize the [...]
Victor Cecil Froggatt Clark 1908-2006
Victor Cecil Froggatt Clark 1908-2006 DSC was a British Navy hero in World War II, Lieutenant-Commander in Singapore in 1941. Victor Clark selflessly rescued many people before the Japanese advance, during a series of daredevil commando raids before being captured and suffering in a Japanese prisoner of war camp until 1945. After [...]
Muriel Spark 1918 – 2006
Muriel Spark 1918 – 2006 was an award winning Scottish novelist. In 2008 The Times newspaper named Spark in its list of “the 50 greatest British writers since 1945″, at #8. Muriel Spark was an advocate of homeopathy, saying ‘… gin and arnica – it’s a homeopathic remedy for shock – God, and a lot of friends… (Anon, The New Yorker, Volume 69, [...]
Thomas Cochrane (1820-?)
Thomas Cochrane (?1820-?) was a Scottish orthodox physician who converted to homeopathy (Anon, The Homeopathic Medical Directory of Great Britain and Ireland, and Annual Abstract of British and American Homeopathic Serial Literature, (1873). Page 200) to become one of the earliest practitioners in Brazil. He practiced in Rio de Janeiro (Anon, The British Homoeopathic Review, [...]
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