Fielding Ould

Sir Fielding Ould (1710–29 November 1789) was an Irish doctor and medical writer.[1][2]

Portrait. Credit: Wellcome Library

Ould was the son of British Army Captain Abraham Ould (1689–1715) and a Miss Shawe of Galway, in which city he was born. He studied in Paris and settled in Golden Lane, Dublin as a medical practitioner in 1736. He published an enormously influential treatise on midwifery in 1742, although it was criticized for a number of factual errors.

An obstetrician, he acquired a huge practice and was master of the Rotunda Hospital (the Dublin lying-in hospital). After a lengthy battle he was eventually granted his licence as a physician. In 1759 he was knighted for services to the medical profession. He died of apoplexy at his home on South Frederick Street and was buried at St. Ann's Churchyard, Dawson Street.[3]

He had at least two children, including William, who was chaplain of the Rotunda Hospital. Later descendants included the painter Sir Fielding Fielding-Ould, and the noted architect William Vitruvius Morrison.

Bibliography

A Treatise of Midwifry, in three parts, Dublin, 1742

References

Notes

"Ould, Fielding" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
Clendening, Logan (1960). "Fielding Ould (p. 181)". Source Book of Medical History. Dover Publications. ISBN 9780486206219; orig. pub. in 1942 by P. B. Hoeber, Inc.
Dunn, Peter M. (1999). "Bartholomew Mosse (1712–59), Sir Fielding Ould (1710–89), and the Rotunda Hospital, Dublin". Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition. 81 (1): F74–F76. doi:10.1136/fn.81.1.f74.

Sources

Maher, Helen (1976). Galway authors : a contribution towards a biographical and bibliographical index, with an essay on the history and literature in Galway. Galway County LIbraries. ISBN 0950559504; 116 pages

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[1] "Ould, Fielding" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.

[2] Clendening, Logan (1960). "Fielding Ould (p. 181)". Source Book of Medical History. Dover Publications. ISBN 9780486206219; orig. pub. in 1942 by P. B. Hoeber, Inc.

[3] Dunn, Peter M. (1999). "Bartholomew Mosse (1712–59), Sir Fielding Ould (1710–89), and the Rotunda Hospital, Dublin". Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition. 81 (1): F74–F76. doi:10.1136/fn.81.1.f74.