James Henthorn

James Henthorn (1744 – 28 December 1832)[2] was the president of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) in 1822.

[3] James Henthorn was appointed Surgeon to the House of Industry Hospitals, on December 7.

Sir Charles Cameron states: "there is every reason to believe that the real founders of the college were the elder Dease and Henthorn.

[4] Henthorn published papers on the treatment of syphilis in the Dublin Hospital Reports for 1808–9.

A full-sized portrait of Henthorn, painted by Martin Cregan, is placed in the college meeting-room.