William Robert Whatton

William Robert Whatton (1790 to 1835) was a British surgeon and antiquarian, born in Loughborough and a Fellow of both the Royal Society and the Society of Antiquaries. He qualified as a member of the Royal College of Surgeons in March 1810 and served at the Da Graça Hospital in Lisbon, treating the wounded from the Battle of Albuera, and he also treated casualties from the sieges of Ciudad Rodrigo and Badajoz in 1812. He was later appointed resident to the Poorhouse in Manchester. On 15 September 1830 he attended William Huskisson, who had been struck by a train and died. He was elected to the staff of the Manchester Royal Infirmary in 1833. Among his writings is an address to the governors of the Royal Institution of Manchester, published in 1829. He died in Portland Place, London, in 1835.