Dr Effingham Carroll
MacDowel
Male
Ireland
1853-00-00
Dublin, Ireland
1924-02-23
County Sligo, Ireland
From The Irish Times, 25 February 1924:
Obituary – Dr Effingham Carroll MacDowel
Dr Effingham Carroll MacDowel died at his residence, The Mall House, Sligo, last Saturday, after a short illness. He was a son of Dr Benjamin George MacDowel, a well-known Dublin physician, who died in 1885, and grandson of Dr E. MacDowell, who died in 1835. He married Mary, the daughter of Colonel Lewis Mansergh Buchanan, of Omagh, and his wife and four children survive him. His son, Benjamin Louis MacDowel, was killed in France in 1915 whilst cutting barbed wire before the enemy’s trenches.
Dr Effingham Carroll MacDowel was an M.D. and M.Ch. of Dublin University, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, and Justice of the Peace for the County Sligo. He took an exhibition and senior moderatorship at this degree examination, and received the degree of M.Ch. stip. cond.
Dr MacDowel first got a scholarship at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, and shortly afterwards went to Sligo, where he was appointed to the County Infirmary and District Lunatic Asylum, which appointments he held for forty-seven years. He had a large consulting practice in Sligo and the neighbouring counties, and during the war he occupied the post of County Director of the Red Cross Association.
Dr MacDowel was much esteemed by a large circle of patients and friends.
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Dr Effingham Carroll MacDowel 1 *
George Grey Herbert Stepney
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Blaney Hamilton 1 *
Dr Effingham Carroll MacDowel
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Round 1
Dr Effingham Carroll MacDowel 1 *
J.W. Henry
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Willoughby James Hamilton 1 *
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