Thornley Stoker

Sir William Thornley Stoker, 1st Baronet (6 March 1845 – July 1912), was an Irish medical writer, anatomist and surgeon.

His parents were Abraham Stoker (1799–1876), from Dublin, and Charlotte Mathilda Blake Thornley (1818–1901), who was raised in Sligo town.

Charlotte was a "vivacious, outgoing" charity worker and social reformer, working for the benefit of the deaf and mute and for girls in service.

For several years from 1876 he held the chair of anatomy at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, until his other interests became too pressing.

Together with his brother-in-law and hospital colleague Richard Thomson he founded the school of nursing at the Richmond and oversaw the construction of the surgical facilities there in 1899.