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Sir James Risdon Bennett, M.D., President of the Royal College of Physicians, 1881. Engraving from a photograph by Fradelle, Regent-street. 'The Queen has conferred the honour of Knighthood upon Dr. James Risdon Bennett, F.R.S., President of the Royal College of Physicians. He is the eldest son of the late Rev. James Bennett, D.D., of Gibson-square, Islington, by his marriage with Sarah, daughter of Mr. John Comley...and he was born in the year 1809. He was educated at Edinburgh University, where he took the degrees of M.D. in 1833 and LL.D. in 1878. He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, London, in 1846, and was Censor in 1857-8. He was some time physician and lecturer on the theory and practice of medicine at St. Thomas's Hospital, physician of the City of London Hospital for Diseases of the Chest, Vice-President of the Pathological Society, &c., and in 1876 was appointed President of the Royal College of Physicians. He is the author of a translation from the German of Dr. Kramer's "Treatise on the Ear," a "Treatise on Acute Hydrocephalus," which gained the Fothergill gold medal in 1842, &c. Dr. Bennett married, in 1841, Miss Ellen Selfe Page, daughter of the Rev. Henry Page, M.A., of Rose-hill, Worcester'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.