Sir Philip Crampton, 1st Baronet

Sir Philip Crampton, 1st Baronet (7 June 1777 to 10 June 1858) was an Irish surgeon and anatomist, born in Dublin, who served as President of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in 1811, 1820, 1844 and 1855. He was surgeon to the Meath Hospital for nearly sixty years, built a large private practice in Dawson Street and taught anatomy in private lectures with Peter Harkan. In 1805 he published an essay on entropeon, the inversion of the eyelid, and in 1813 he described a muscle in the eye of birds that adjusts the lens, later called the musculus cramptonius in his honour. In 1821, with Sir Henry Marsh and Dr. Charles Johnston, he helped found the Institute for Sick Children, the first teaching children's hospital in Ireland or Great Britain.