John Houston (1801–45)

Irish anatomist. Apprenticed to John Shekleton, founder and curator of the Dublin College of Surgeons’ museum, 1819; curator, 1824–41. MD, Edinburgh, 1826. Surgeon to the City of Dublin Hospital, 1832. Lecturer on surgery, Park Street school of medicine, 1837. One of the first to introduce the microscope to medicine in Dublin.