William Cumberland Cruikshank

(1745-1800)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Cruickshank, William, 1745-1800 NRA: Cruikshank William Cumberland (1745-1800) Anatomist DNB: Cruikshank, William Cumberland (1745–1800), anatomist LBT ID: WiCruik1800 VIAF ID: 72153215 LOC ID: n86847182	B/BAP: 1745 DIED: 1800-06-27
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Educated at Edinburgh and Glasgow universities, from 1771 he worked as a London physician who lectured and published on anatomy. Samuel Johnson was among his patients.
REFERENCES TO William Cumberland Cruikshank: Charles Lamb to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, [30 May 1796] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 6 Charles Lamb to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, [8 June 1796] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 1 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. II. 1794 Found 1: ¶ 8 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1796 Found 1: ¶ 20