Thomas Castle

Thomas Castle (c.1805–1837)[1] was an English botanical and medical writer.

Life

Castle was born in Kent, and after leaving school became a pupil of John Gill, who as surgeon at Hythe; he went on to London to carry on his studies. He entered Guy's Hospital in 1826, and was a member of its Physical Society; in 1827 he was elected fellow of the Linnean Society, when he was living in Bermondsey Square in south London.[2]

Castle matriculated at The Queen's College, Oxford in 1830, and at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1831.[3] Subsequently he moved to Brighton, and committed suicide in 1837.[1][2]

Works

Castle's publications were:[2]

• Lexicon Pharmacopœlium, London 1826, 2nd edit., 1834.
• Modern Surgery, 1828.
• Manual of Surgery, ed. by, 2nd edit. 1829, 3rd edit. 1831.
• Systematic and Physiological Botany, 1829.
• Medical Botany, 1829.
• Linnæan System of Botany, 1836.
• Essay on Poisons, 1834, 7th edit. 1845.
• Pharmacopœia, Roy. Coll. Phys., translator, 1837, 2nd edit. 1838.
• Table of Greek Verbs, Cambridge, 1832.

He also edited two editions of James Blundell's Diseases of Women, 1834 and 1837, and with Bernard Herbert Barton published a British Flora Medica, 1837, a second edition of which was edited in 1867 by John Reader Jackson.[2]

Notes

1. Wallis, Patrick. "Castle, Thomas". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/4872. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
2. Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1887). "Castle, Thomas" . Dictionary of National Biography. 9. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
3. "Castle, Thomas (CSTL831T)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.

Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1887). "Castle, Thomas". Dictionary of National Biography. 9. London: Smith, Elder & Co.