William Wadd

Biography:

was a 19th-century British surgeon and medical author. Wadd the eldest son of Solomon Wadd a surgeon who lived and practised for more than half a century in Basinghall Street London was born on 1776 and was entered at Merchant Taylor’s school late in 1784. He was apprenticed to Sir James Earle in 1797 and thus became one of the privileged class of surgeon’s pupils at St Bartholomew's Hospital.