William Hartigan (about 1852, Limerick, Ireland – 11 September 1936, Oatlands, Weybridge, England)[1] was a physician for the Hongkong Shanghai Banking Corporation, co-founder of the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese and a brother-in-law of Sir Thomas Jackson.
He went to Hong Kong where he was a physician to the Alice Memorial Hospital.
Hartigan with Dr Patrick Manson and Dr Gregory Paul Jordan formed the Hong Kong Medical Society in September 1886.
[2] Dr Sun Yat-sen, graduate of the school, mentioned him as one of his significant teachers.
Hartigan married Florence Gertrude Dare, whose older sister had married Thomas Jackson, the chief manager of the HSBC.