HALL OVEREND (1773-1831) - SHEEFIELD

The first hospital in Sheffield was the General Infirmary, which opened in 1795, the result of a public fund-raising meeting. Medical training at the time was unstructured, largely being by apprenticeship. Hall Overend, a surgeon apothecary, began teaching medical students in Sheffield, perhaps as early as 1811: he was a “superb teacher with initiative and drive”. The move to formally recognise medical education began under the auspices of the Society of Apothecaries – which awarded its licence to practise, the LSA – and the Apothecaries Act of 1815 was the beginning of regulation of the medical profession. Although Overend successfully presented students for the LSA from 1815, he was never officially registered as a lecturer with the Society, and so cannot be described as running an official medical school.
Even so, he can be regarded as the father of medical education in Sheffield.

Hall Overend established an anatomy museum at his home in Church Street, where he conducted demonstrations of dissection, the one essential feature of a medical school at the time. His son, Wilson Overend, successfully applied to become a lecturer with the Society of Apothecaries in 1828, and ran the Sheffield School of Anatomy and Medicine on Eyre Street

The Sheffield and Rotherham Independent dated 26th August 1873 had this article under the title "Old Sheffield Doctors"

Hall Overend Family

Birth 23 September 1772 • Settle, Yorkshire, England
Marriage 18 November 1800 • Rawdon, Yorkshire, England Ruth Wilson (1776–1845)
Birth of son John Overend(1801–1832) 19 December 1801 • Balby-with-Hexthorpe, York, England
Residence 21 October 1802 • Sheffield, York, England
Birth of daughter Isabel Overend(1804–1835) 10 December 1804 • Sheffield, Yorkshire, England
Birth of son Wilson Overend(1806–1865) 14 May 1806 • Sheffield, Yorkshire, England
Birth of daughter Hannah Overend(1807–1897) 08 December 1807 • Balby-with-Hexthorpe, Yorkshire, England
Birth of son William Overend(1809–1884) 31 May 1809 • Sheffield, Yorkshire, England
Birth of daughter Martha Rose Overend(1810–1891) 20 July 1810 • Sheffield, Yorkshire, England
Birth of daughter Elizabeth Overend(1811–1889) 10 October 1811 • Sheffield, Yorkshire, England
Residence 1822 • Yorkshire, England
Death 28 May 1831 • Sheffield, Yorkshire,

Sources

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Ancestry

Sheffield and Rotherham Independent dated 26th August 1873

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