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Michael  Carteighe. 
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an  interesting  sidelight  on  the  character  of  this  young  student.  In 
Carteighe's  case  it  was  not  mere  pushfulness  that  led  him  to  forsake 
the  beaten  tracks  of  precedents;  he  felt  that  reform  was  needed, 
that  this  was  the  best  opportunity  for  saying  so,  and  he  had  the 
courage  to  take  the  opportunity.  Before  passing  from  this  brief 
glimpse  at  Carteighe  as  a  pupil,  a  word  should  be  said  as  to  his 
conduct  as  an  apprentice.  Mr.  Radermacher,  his  old  master,  testifies 
to  his  punctual  habits,  his  attention  to  instructions,  his  avidity  for 
knowledge,  and  his  anxiety  to  make  the  best  use  of  his  time.  So 
from  the  beginning  Michael  Carteighe  gave  indications  that  much 
was  expected  of  him,  and  in  this  he  has  not  disappointed  his  old 
master,  who  has  lived  to  witness  the  achievements  of  his  apprentice, 
and  is  happily  still  with  us. 
In  the  year  following  the  award  of  the  Pereira  medal,  Mr.  Car- 
teighe was  elected  an  auditor  of  the  Pharmaceutical  Society,  and 
thus  began  an  official  connection  with  the  Society  which  lasted 
without  interruption  up-  to  the  time  of  his  death.  Indeed,  he  at- 
tended the  meeting  of  the  Council  on  May  4  last  and  the  meeting 
of  the  Library,  Museum,  School  and  House  Committee  on  May  11. 
It  was  at  the  end  of  the  year  1863  that  he  joined  the  firm  of  Dinne- 
ford  and  Co.,  of  Bond  Street,  which  was  then  carried  on  by  his 
brother,  John  Carteighe  and  John  Edward  Stuart.  The  business 
became  one  of  the  best  known  in  London,  and  here  the  energetic 
young  pharmacist  found  scope  for  the  application  of  much  knowl- 
edge gained  while  at  the  School  of  Pharmacy.  Three  years  later — 
in  1866 — he  became  a  member  of  the  Council  of  the  Pharmaceutical 
Society,  as  also  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Examiners,  but  in  1869 
a  change  was  made  in  the  By-laws  which  precluded  anyone  from 
filling  the  duties  of  Councillor  and  Examiner  at  the  same  time,  and 
he  withdrew  from  the  Council,  in  order  to  serve  the  Society  as  an 
examiner.  It  was  not  until  1881  that  he  returned  to  the  Council, 
but  in  this  interval  of  eleven  years  he  was  closely  associated  with 
the  Society,  and  performed  many  important  and  useful  offices.  He 
was  the  chief  organizer  of  the  first  annual  dinner  of  the  members 
of  the  Society,  which  was  held  at  the  Crystal  Palace  in  1872,  and  he 
acted  as  Local  Secretary  to  the  London  meeting  of  the  British  Phar- 
maceutical Conference  in  1874.  In  the  same  year  he  gave  evidence 
before  a  Select  Committee  of  the  House  of  Commons  on  the  frivolous 
prosecutions  which  had  been  instituted  under  the  Sale  of  Food  and 
