William Auchinleck
William Auchinleck was the president of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in 1829.
W. Auchinleck was born in Dublin on the 19th May, 1787. On the 6th August, 1802, Auchinleck was indentured to Gerard Macklin, and commenced his studies at the College of Surgeons and Mercer's Hospital. On the 23rd June, 1810, he became a licentiate, and on the 7th April a member of the College. He was appointed a Surgeon to Mercer's Hospital, in which institution, about the year 1842, he successfully removed the inferior' maxillary bone, the patient making a good recovery; this was the first occasion upon which this operation was performed in Dublin. Auchinleck was Lecturer on Surgery in the Dublin School of Medicine. He died, suddenly, on the 27th December, 1848, and was interred in St. Michan's churchyard.
