Ireland, Rathmines, Rev. Benson's Academy
Thomas Robert Bradshaw, born 1859 at Seamington. Gained his B.A. from Trinity College in 1878. M.D. 1882. He subsequently moved to Liverpool where he was appointed physician to the Royal Infirmary. He is best known for his writings on myelopathic albumosuria.. he held the chair of medicine at the Royal Infirmary for thirty eight years until his retirement.
Rathmines School was founded by a Church of Ireland Clergyman, Rev Charles William Benson, in 1858. It was based in premises at Elm House, Rathmines. Little is known of this school, except that it attracted a significant number of gifted, middle class protestant boys. Benson himself seems to have been a real character, and he was fond of boasting about the number of university professors and Bishops that had come from his school. When, in the 1930s, a number of former pupils got together to produce a school register, the organising committee was chaired by the Church of Ireland Bishop of Tuam, along with a number of prominent academics and businessmen.
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