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Richard Leach Maddox. 

 1816-1902. 



Richard Leach Maddox was born at Bath on August 4, 1816. 

 He received his early education at a public school in Somerset- 

 shire, and in 1837 entered University College, London, to study 

 medicine. While still a student he took a voyage round the 

 world for the sake of his health, leaving England in 1839 and 

 returning in 1840. In 1842 he obtained the diploma of the Royal 

 College of Surgeons, and in the following year the Licence of the 

 Apothecaries' Society. In 1844 he went over to Paris to pursue 

 his medical studies at the Hopital de la Charitd In 1847 he 

 visited Smyrna, proceeding thence to Constantinople where he 

 practised his profession until 1850 when he returned to England. 

 In 1851 he took his M.D. degree at Aberdeen. In the following 

 year he went back to Constantinople where he again set up in 

 practice, and during the latter part of the Crimean war held an 

 appointment as Civil Surgeon at the Hospital at Scutari. 



Compelled to return to England on account of his health T 

 Maddox set up in private practice for a time at Islington, after- 

 wards at Ryde, Isle of Wight, eventually settling at Woolston, near 

 Southampton, in 1859. Here he remained till 1874, and it was 

 during this period that he did so much of the work which was 

 to render his name conspicuous. In 1875 he again went abroad, 

 proceeding first to Ajaccio and afterwards to Bordighera and Cor- 

 nigliano, at which places he practised medicine among the English 

 residents. He was also at different times resident physician to 

 the Duke of Montrose, Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, and Lady 

 Katharine Bannerman. 



Still later, Maddox lived for some years at Gunnersbury, but 

 from 1887 onwards resided at Greenbank, Portswood, Southampton,. 

 till his death on May 11th. 



Dr. Maddox was twice married, and left two sons and a 

 daughter. 



For a great part of his life Maddox was subject to periodical 

 attacks of ill-health which sometimes caused him to leave England 

 for a more congenial climate, and which frequently prevented him 

 from pursuing those avocations to which he was inclined. These 

 break-downs were attributable to overwork, for he never spared 

 himself, and also to the vitiated atmosphere, tainted with ether 

 vapour, in which he was accustomed to work. Yet it was the 



