William Hales Hingston

Sir William Hales Hingston, KCB ( born June 29, 1829 in Hinchinbrooke, Lower Canada, † February 19, 1907 in Montreal ) was a Canadian politician, physician and banker. From 1875 to 1877 he was mayor of the city of Montreal, from 1896 member of the Senate.

Biography

Hingston received his secondary education at the Petit Séminaire de Montréal. From 1844, he worked in a pharmacy, but then decided in 1848 to study medicine at McGill University. He graduated in 1851 and continued his studies in Edinburgh at the Royal College of Surgeons continues. After a long stay in Europe, he returned in 1854 back to Montreal and opened a medical practice there. In addition, he taught surgery at the Hôtel- Dieu de Montréal. As the first surgeon in Canada and one of the first in the world in 1863, he removed a cancer affected kidney. In 1872 he became the first North American doctor by the resection of a tongue and a lower jaw.

1871 Hingston temporarily left the Hôtel- Dieu, to establish the medical school of Bishop's College; there he spent a year as its dean. From 1875 he taught at the École de médecine Montreal et de chirurgie. He was from 1887 the dean and remained so when the school in 1891 merged with the Faculty of Medicine of the Université de Laval. In 1882 he was also appointed chief surgeon at the Hôtel -Dieu. Hingston was co-founder of several medical interest groups. In addition to his main work, he was director from 1875 and from 1895 President of the Savings Bank Banque d' Epargne de la Cite et du District, also president of the urban tramway company.

Hingston officiated from 1875 to 1877 as mayor of Montreal. During this time he devoted himself in particular the fundamental reform of urban health. Due to its numerous medical services he was beaten in 1895 by Queen Victoria knighted. Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie Bowell appointed Senator Hingston 1896; until his death he was a member of the Parliament of the conservative faction. Hingston was president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Honorary President of the British Medical Association in 1906 and Honorary President of the International Congress of Surgeons in Paris.