Edward Cronin (born Cork, Ireland, 1 February 1801, died Brixton, 1882) was a pioneer of homeopathy in England and one of the founders of the Plymouth Brethren movement.
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Life
Cronin was born in 1801 in Cork, Ireland[1] before moving to Dublin for health reasons in about 1826.[2] In Dublin he studied medicine at the Meath Hospital, and later utilised his medical ability on Anthony Norris Groves' pioneering mission to Baghdad - after the death of his wife in 1829, Cronin went with Groves to administer medical support including dealing with an outbreak of plague.[3] While in Persia and later India, he also dealt with cholera and typhus using homeopathic principles.[4]
Cronin returned to England in 1836, where, as a medical practitioner, he became an early adopter of homeopathy in the UK - Cronin is estimated to be the fifth such practitioner to introduce homeopathy[5]. He was a member of the English Homeopathic Association, and in 1858 he became the last man to become a Lambeth MD before the Medical Act 1858 abolished this particular qualification.[6] Cronin remarried and settled in Brixton where he lived until his death in 1882. Cronin's eldest son Eugene also took up homeopathic practice, and another of his sons became honorary dentist to the London Homeopathic Hospital[7]
Faith
Originally a Roman Catholic, when Cronin moved to Dublin he sought membership with various dissenting churches in the area but was only admitted as a visitor.[8] He began meeting with other Christians including Anthony Norris Groves, John Gifford Bellet and John Nelson Darby, whose conviction that the ordination of clergy was unnecessary and unscriptural, as well as his dispensationalist and premillenialist theology which later became principle tenets of the Plymouth Brethren movement.
External links
- Biography by Dr Thomas Lindsey Bradford, from Pioneers of Homeopathy, 1898
- Entry from Burke's Peerage
References
- ^ Mosley, C., ed., Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition Wilmington: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 1, page 876
- ^ H.H., The Origins of the Brethren, 1825-1850, Pickering & Inglis, 1967, p.37
- ^ Bradford, T.L.,Pioneers of Homeopathy, 1898
- ^ Epps, J., Homoeopathy and Its Principles Explained: And Its Principles Explained, English Homoeopathic Assn., 1850, p.314
- ^ Epps, J., Homoeopathy and Its Principles Explained: And Its Principles Explained, English Homoeopathic Assn., 1850, p.231
- ^ Mason, A.S., "Wasn't It Exciting!" A Compilation of the Work of A. Stuart Mason, p.203, Royal College of Physicians, 2004, ISBN 1860162061
- ^ Monthly Homeopathic Review, Vol. 26, p. 193.
- ^ Rowdon, H.H.,The Origins of the Brethren, 1825-1850, Pickering & Inglis, 1967, p.37
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