John Kay Booth

1779-1859

Vol III

Pg 79

b.1779 d.14 January 1859

MD Edin(1805) LRCP(1809)

This biography is part of a series of historical obituaries, originally published in print. As products of their time periods, some biographies contain language which is inappropriate and offensive and present biased accounts of physicians’ lives and work that do not disclose unethical and discriminatory behaviour. As an establishment organisation, the RCP, its members, and the way they are written about, have often reflected societal power structures that favour dominant groups. We aim to redress these biases through ongoing work.

Below is the biography as originally published in 1878.

John Kay Booth, M.D., was born in Yorkshire, and received his medical education at Edinburgh, where he graduated doctor of medicine 24th June, 1805 (D.M.I. de Arthritide). He was admitted a Licentiate of the College of Physicians 30th September, 1809, and shortly afterwards settled at Birmingham, and in 1812 was elected physician to the General hospital in that town. He took a lively interest in the establishment and prosperity of Queen’s college and the Queen’s hospital, Birmingham, to both of which institutions he allied himself, being for a time physician to the latter and principal of the former in 1856. Dr. Booth died at Ecclesfield 14th January, 1859, aged eighty; being then a justice of the peace for the West Riding.

William Munk

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