Author: Kirby, Jeremiah
Biography:
KIRBY, Jeremiah (1774-1827: ancestry.co.uk)
He was born at London to William Kirby, a physician, and Mary (Omer) Kirby and was baptised at St. Paul's, Covent Garden, on 29 June 1774. He moved to study medicine at the University of Edinburgh and graduated in 1802, the same year that he married Jane Kenneday on 3 Sept. at St. Cuthbert's. They had four daughters. After Jane’s death, he married Elizabeth Thomson on 11 May 1817 and had two more children. Kirby practised medicine in Edinburgh and was a member of a committee to establish a school for the children of the poor at Portobello, a coastal suburb of Edinburgh. In 1805 he published Tables of Materia Medica and he also contributed articles on medicine (both human and animal) to the Encyclopedia Britannica. He died at Edinburgh on 30 Dec. 1827 and was buried in Greyfriars churchyard. (ancestry.co.uk 10 Sept 2019, 21 Dec. 2024) SR