Fleetwood Churchill

Churchill was born at Nottingham, where his businessman father died when he was three years old, and he was educated by his mother.

He was apprenticed to a general practitioner at Nottingham in 1822, and then studied in London, Dublin, Paris, and Edinburgh, where he graduated M.D.

He was by then married, and entered on a successful career as teacher, writer, and practitioner: his income reached £3,000 a year.

About two years and a half before his death, in failing health, he retired, presented his obstetrical library to the Ireland College of Physicians, left Dublin, and lived at the house of his daughter and son-in-law at Ardtrea rectory, near Stewartstown, County Tyrone.

The major ones were:[1] His Manual for Midwives went to five editions, and had an 1893 revision by Thomas More Madden, as Handbook of Obstetric and Gynaecological Nursing.