Author: Little, William Swayne
Biography:
LITTLE, William Swayne (1810-76: ancestry.co.uk)
He was born at Limerick to Thomas Little, a doctor at the Sligo Infirmary, and his wife Charity Margaret (former surname unknown but it may have been Swayne), and baptised on 15 Sept. 1810. He entered Trinity College Dublin in 1827, earning his AB and, in 1837, his MB. He was licensed by the Royal College of Surgeons in 1835 and specialised in midwifery although medical articles by him indicate a general practice. He married Marion Georgina Monsarrat at St. George's church in Dublin on 7 July 1837; they had at least five children with one son becoming a doctor and another a clergyman. He spent nine years working as medical officer at the Headford Dispensary in Galway before succeeding his father as officer of health at the Sligo Infirmary in 1849. He was made the medical attendant for the Sligo barracks in 1854. He died at home on 5 Dec. 1876. His wife died in 1896. (ancestry.co.uk 11 May 2021; Warder and Dublin Weekly Mail 15 July 1837; Sligo Champion 18 Aug. 1849) SR