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Author: Slight, Henry

Biography:

SLIGHT, Henry (1796-1860: ancestry.co.uk)

He was baptised on 17 Jan. 1796 at St. Thomas’s, Portsmouth, the son of Thomas Slight and his wife Frances Hillier, who had married in Portsmouth in 1793. Nothing is known of his education but he qualified as a doctor and surgeon and was a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons (MRCS) and Licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries (LSA) in 1819. He was a General Practitioner from the 1820s to the 1850s at 100 High Street, Portsmouth, and is listed in all the usual directories. His younger brother, Julian Slight (1798-1885), practiced at 125. At some point in the late 1850s he moved to Highland Cottage, Highland Street, Portsmouth where he died on 25 Nov. 1860, leaving a surprisingly small estate valued at under £100. He never married. Besides A Metrical History of Portsmouth, he wrote Chronicles of Portsmouth with his brother Julian (1828); The History of the Royal Dock Yard at Portsmouth (1843?); and later in a professional capacity, The First Fruits of the Great Sanatory Charter, Shewn in the Act for the Well-Ordering of Common Lodging Houses (1851). He also edited The Sacred Lyrics of the Liturgy (1841). (ancestry.co.uk 15 Nov. 2022; findmypast.co.uk 15 Nov. 2022; London and Provincial Medical Directory (1850); Hampshire Telegraph 1 Dec. 1860) AA

 

Books written (1):

Portsmouth/ Portsea/ Gosport/ London: S. Mills and Mottley and Harrison/ T. Whitewood/ W. Johnson/ Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1820