Thomas Waugh Belcher

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The Rev. Thomas Waugh Belcher D.D.L.L.D.M.D ect. Eldest son of Henry Belcher who died in 1883, is Rector of Frampton Cotterell near Bristol and the only remaining Belcher of real interest in Bandon, having property there. This Dr Belcher is also a Senior Fellow of the Dublin College of Physicians and Physician to the Cork Fever Hospital, and Dublin Eye and Ear Hospital. (History of the Bandon Belchers – copied from the Bandon Parish Magazine 1909) Medical Register Registered 28/12/1858 MB, Lic. Surg 1854, MD 1862 (Dublin) MB 1856, Lic. 1860 Fellow 1864 (Oxf) K.Q.Coll. Phys Irel. 1867 25 Hatch Street, Dublin 1871 Dover, Kent 1883 St Faith's, Stoke Newington, London 1887 - 1907 Frampton-Coterell Rectory, Bristol Crockford's Clerical Directory 1910 Belcher, Thomas Wagh, Frampton Cotterell Rectory, Bristol. T.C.D. B.A. 1851 M.A. B.M. and L. Surg. 1854, M.A. and M.B. Ox. ad eund. 1856, M.D. Dub. 1862, M.Ch. 1866; B.D. and D.D. 1874; Fell. and sometime Censor, Exam. and Chief Libr. R. Coll of Phys. of Ireland 1869, 1870 Cant. R. of Frampton-Cotterell, Dio. Bris 1886. (P,S. for Mainten. of the Faith, pro hac vice Miss A. M. Fox; T.R.C. 531l, av. 358l w54 a of Gl; Q.A.B. 8l: Gross Inc 420l, Net 300l and Ho Pop. 907) F C. of Charlton-by-Dover 1869-71. P.C. of St. Faith, Stoke Newington, 1871-73; V. 1873-86. Author, Our Lord's Miracles of Healing considered in relation to some modern objections and to Medical Science, with preface by Abp Trench 1872; 2nd ed. 1890; The Hygenic Aspects of Pogonotrophy, 1864; Reformatories for Drunkards 1862; Memoir of John Stearne, M.D. 1865; Memoir of Sir P. Dun, M.D. 1866; "Is Christ the Head of His Church in England?" 6th Ed. 1881; Apostoloic Contumacy, 2 eds. 1881; Robert Brett of Stoke Newington, his Life ;and Work, 1889; 2nd ed. 1891. For Medical Works see Churchill's Medical Directory. Alumni Oxonienses Belcher, Thomas Waugh, B.M., M.A. Trinity Coll., Dublin (B.A. 1851, B.M. 1854, M.A. 1854, M.D. 1862), ad eundem 30 Oct., 1856, rector of Frampton Cotterell, Somerset 1886, late fellow R.C.P.I., etc.

Thomas married Mary Margaretta Bunting, daughter of Thomas Percival Bunting and Eliza Bealey, Q2 1860 in Chorlton, Lancashire. (Mary Margaretta Bunting was born on 20 Sep 1833, christened on 17 Nov 1833 in Oxford Road Wesleyan Methodist, Chorlton Upon Medlock, Lancashire, England and died in 1914.)