Robert McDonnell (1828–89)

Irish surgeon. Served as a surgeon in the Crimean War, 1855. Demonstrator of anatomy, Carmichael School of Medicine, 1856; afterwards lecturer on anatomy and physiology. Surgeon to Jervis Street Hospital, Dublin, 1863; to Steevens’s Hospital, 1866. Medical superintendent of the Mountjoy government prison, 1857–67. Elected president, Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland, 1877; president, Academy of Medicine in Ireland, 1885–8. FRS 1865.