Author: Chadwick, Adam
Biography:
CHADWICK, Adam (1803-71: ancestry.co.uk)
He was born on 19 Sept. 1803 and baptised on 9 Dec. at St. Ann’s, Manchester, the son of Adam Chadwick (1779-1834) and Mary Buckley (1781-1871), who had married the previous year. His mother Mary Chadwick (q.v.) would later dedicate her Rural and Other Poems (1828) to him and leave him the manuscript and copyright. He studied at Edinburgh (1824-7) and qualified MD (1827). He then practised as an itinerant physician at Ludlow, Shropshire (1827-8), and at Bristol (1830); by 1840 he was in London where he seems to have remained until at least 1851. He may have inherited wealth on the death of his father in 1834 and both he and his mother were listed as landed proprietors in various censuses. This together with his literary work may have meant he practised little later in life. He returned to Manchester, possibly at some point in the 1850s. He died on 11 May 1871 at 11 Heathfield, Chorlton-upon-Medlock, Manchester, and was buried at Ardwick. He left an estate of £1500 to his sister, Frances Elizabeth Chadwick (1810-83), who erected a memorial tablet to him and her father at St. John’s, Wigan. He never married. In addition to the work listed here he published Cain and Abel, A Poem (1837), Coronation, A Poem(1838), and the opera and tragedies, Croesus, Atys, and Adrastus (1850) Pyramus and Thisbe (1854), and Tarquinius Priscus (1859). Medical Miscellany (1856) is his only known contribution on medical matters. (ancestry.co.uk 28 June 2023; findmypast.co.uk 28 June 2023; Liverpool Mercury 24 May 1871; John Leyland, Memorials of Abram [1882], 31; Pigot’s Directories) AA