Richard Dease

Richard Dease (c. 1774 – 21 February 1819)[2] was the president of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) in 1809.

Having been indentured to his father on 1 September 1790, he prosecuted his medical studies in the RCSI and the Meath Hospital.

He also spent some time in the London hospitals and at the University of Edinburgh, in which he graduated with an MD On 3 September 1795, he obtained the Letters Testimonial of RCSI and in the same year succeeded Israel Read as Surgeon to the Meath Hospital.

[2] On Saturday, 13 February 1819, Dease was lecturing to his class on the cervical nerves and brachial plexus.

He soon developed the most severe symptoms of blood poisoning, and died on 21 February, in the house in Sackville Street which he had inherited from his father.