William Sewell (physician)

William Sewell (1781–1853) was the second principal of the London Veterinary College, succeeding Edward Coleman who died in 1839.

Life

Sewell was the son of an Essex farmer and of Quaker descent. At age 15, he was apprenticed to Coleman and remained at the college for 57 years. In 1815 and 1816, he was sent by the College governors to the European continent to visit veterinary schools.

Upon graduation from the college at age 18, he was appointed Demonstrator (e.g., professor) in Anatomy, and in 1803, he was named Assistant Professor. He was charged with maintaining discipline at the College. His life was devoted to the study of horses. His biographers described Sewell as a reserved man, unsociable, hesitating, and unpopular with the students and the profession. However, he remained loyal to Coleman.

He popularized the operation of neurectomy, the surgical removal of a nerve in horses, in 1817. In 1825, he reported that glanders was an infectious disease which affected horses’ lungs and reported that the cure for glanders was copper sulfate. In 1835, he introduced the operation of periosteum to treat splints and sprain in horses. He was considered an expert in lameness in horses. In 1829, he performed the first operation for bladder stones in horses.

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William Sewell (trade unionist)

William Sewell (22 September 1852 – 24 May 1948) was a British trade unionist.

Born in Worksop, Sewell moved to Derbyshire at the age of nine and began working at a coal mine in Renishaw. He became active in the South Yorkshire Miners' Association, and subsequently was a leading figure in the split which formed the Derbyshire Miners' Association (DMA). He was then working at Holbrook Colliery, and was its first delegate to the DMA. He also served on Eckington Parish Council for many years from 1894, initially as a Liberal-Labour representative, then later for the Labour Party, but only reluctantly, on the insistence of his union.

Sewell served on the council of the DMA for many years, and was elected as its vice-president in 1907, then as president in 1918, around which point he stopped working underground, on account of his age. He stood down from his union post in 1924, living in Halfway until his death, aged 95.

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William Sewell (author)

William Sewell (23 January 1804 – 14 November 1874), English divine and author, was born at Newport, Isle of Wight, the son of a solicitor.

He was educated at Winchester and Merton College, Oxford, was elected a fellow of Exeter College in 1827, and from 1831-1853 was a tutor there. From 1836-1841 he was White's Professor of Moral Philosophy. Sewell, who took holy orders in 1830, was a friend of Pusey, Newman and Keble in the earlier days of the Tractarian movement, but subsequently considered that the Tractarians leaned too much towards Rome, and dissociated himself from them, his novel Hawkstone being opposed to Newman's position at the time. When, however, in 1849, JA Froude published his Nemesis of Faith, Sewell denounced the wickedness of the book to his class, and, when one of his pupils confessed to the possession of a copy, seized it, tore it to pieces, and threw it in the fire.

In 1843 he, with some friends, founded at Rathfarnham, near Dublin, St Columba's College, designed to be a sort of Irish Eton, and in 1847 helped to found Radley College. Sewell's intention was that each of these schools should be conducted on strict High Church principles. He was originally himself one of the managers of St Columba, and later the third Warden of Radley, but his business management was not successful in either case, and his personal responsibility for the debts contracted by Radley caused the sequestration of his Oxford fellowship. In 1862 his financial difficulties compelled him to leave England for Germany, and he did not return till 1870.

William Sewell (poet)

William Seymour (Bill) Sewell (1 December 1951 – 29 January 2003) was a New Zealand poet. He was a Burns Fellow at Otago University, Dunedin in 1981–82. He was a frequent reviewer of books, particularly for the periodical New Zealand Books, to which he was appointed co-editor in 1997. He was also a book editor. He died of cancer in Wellington.

He published three collections of poems: Solo Flight (1982), Wheels within Wheels (1983) and Making the Far Land Glow (1986) and also A Guide to the Rimutaka Forest Park (1989). His poems have a link to modern German poetry and a political focus eg ''The Ballad of Fifty-one about the 1951 waterfront dispute and Erebus: A poem about the 1979 Erebus disaster

He was born in Athens where his father William Arthur Sewell, a professor of English at the University of Auckland and the University of Waikato, was then teaching. He lived in Southern Europe and then England where he attended school. He studied German at the University of Auckland and lectured in German at the University of Otago. He had a law degree from the Victoria University of Wellington and was a legal researcher for the Law Commission.

William Sewell (cricketer)

William Henry Sewell (birth details unknown; died 13 March 1862 at Florence, Italy) was an English amateur cricketer who played first-class cricket from 1822 to 1827. He was mainly associated with Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), of which he was a member, and made 8 known appearances in first-class matches, including 4 for the Gentlemen.

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