[1] He was a childhood friend of Theobald Wolfe Tone, the United Irishman, and a cousin, on his mother's side, of Thomas Verner, Grand Master of the Orange Order.

When he was appointed surgeon to the Meath Hospital in 1798 he was not yet fully qualified, and went on to graduate MD in Glasgow University in 1800 and by 1801 he was a Member of RCSI.

[2] A few years later he also became assistant surgeon at the Lock Hospital, Dublin and also built up a large private practice at his house in Dawson St.

[3] Cameron in his History of RCSI notes of him: " In 1805 Crampton published an essay on Entropeon, or inversion of the eyelid, which excited considerable interest at the time.

The main objective of the hospital was to treat sick children in one of the poorest parts of Dublin, The Liberties.

It was of a curious design, consisting of a bust above a fountain and surmounted by a cascade of metal foliage.

Joyce also references the sculpture in his novel “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” as the protagonist Stephen Dedalus explains different forms of art to his friend: “Is the bust of Sir Philip Crampton lyrical, epical, or dramatic?”