Edward Hallaran Bennett

Edward Hallaran Bennett (1837 to 1907) was an Irish surgeon remembered for describing Bennett's fracture, born at Charlotte Quay, Cork, on 9 April 1837 and dead in Dublin on 21 June 1907. He was the fifth and youngest son of Robert Bennett, Recorder of Cork, and Jane Saunders Hallaran, and both his grandfathers were well-known doctors; William Saunders Hallaran wrote extensively on insanity. He studied at Trinity College Dublin, gaining a BA and MB before graduating M.Ch. in 1859 and M.D. in 1864. From 1873 to 1906 he was professor of anatomy and surgery there. He studied fractures, dislocations and bone diseases and recorded them in the Pathology Museum at the college, and he described the fracture that bears his name at the British Medical Association meeting in Cork in 1880. He is said to have introduced antiseptic technique to Dublin and became president of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland.