Samuel Taylor Chadwick

Samuel Taylor Chadwick was an English medical doctor and philanthropist, born in Urmston, Lancashire, in 1809 and died in 1876. He studied medicine at the University of London from 1828, qualified as a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, practised in Wigan and in 1837 moved to Bolton to succeed his uncle. He improved his skills in Ireland and Scotland, took his MD at Edinburgh, and in Bolton founded an eye clinic and an ear, nose and throat clinic and served as honorary surgeon at Bolton Hospital. He gave five thousand pounds toward the ear, nose and throat ward that bears his name. As a town councillor he campaigned for cleaner water and better public health, funded housing for people living in cellars, founded an orphanage for girls and helped start the museum that became Bolton Museum. A statue of him stands outside Bolton Town Hall.