OBITUARY NOTICES. 
THOMAS ANTISELL. 
1817-1893. 
[Read before the Society, May 23, 1896.] 
The ancestors of Dr. Antisell were French Huguenots, who 
fled from persecution to England, where part of the family 
remained and changed the name to “ Entwisel.” Another 
part settled in Kings county, Ireland, where the last male 
descendant died a few years ago. 
Dr. Antisell was born in Dublin, Ireland, January 16,1817, 
of Christopher and Margaret Antiseil, formerly Margaret 
Daly. His father was a lawyer, who refused the “ silk gown,” 
or appointment as Queen’s counsel, because he was not favor¬ 
able to British rule in Ireland. 
The Doctor was the second son in a family of three sons 
and two daughters, and commenced his medical education 
with Surgeon Daly, of Dublin, graduating from the Royal 
College of Surgeons, London. He studied chemistry with 
Sir Robert Kane, and for many years acted as his assistant. 
While residing in London he visited Paris and Berlin, and 
later settled in his native city, where he became a successful 
physician, also giving some lectures on agricultural chem¬ 
istry. In 1848 he was obliged to leave his country on account 
of his connection with the young Ireland party, and chose 
New York city as the place of his political exile. Here he 
practiced medicine from 1848 to 1854, at the same time hold¬ 
ing the position of lecturer on chemistry in a number of col¬ 
leges, among them those at Woodstock, Vermont, at Pittsfield, 
Massachusetts, and at the Berkshire Medical Institute. 
In 1854 his taste for travel led him to accept the position 
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