William Hey (surgeon)

William Hey (23 August 1736 – 23 March 1819) was an English surgeon, born in Pudsey, West Riding of Yorkshire, the son of Richard Hey and his wife Mary Simpson; John Hey and Richard Hey were his brothers.[1] He was a surgeon at Leeds General Infirmary from its opening in a temporary building in 1776, and senior surgeon from 1773 to 1812.

William Hey
William Hey, 1816 stipple engraving
Born23 August 1736
Pudsey, Leeds
Died23 March 1819
Occupation(s)Surgeon, Politician

He gave his name to Hey's amputation (a tarso-metatarsal amputation), Hey's internal derangement (dislocation of the semilunar cartilages of the knee joint), Hey's ligament (the semilunar lateral margin (falciform margin) of the fossa ovalis), and Hey's saw, used in skull surgery.[2]

Hey served as mayor of Leeds in 1787–88 and 1802–03. In 1783 he was President of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society. He also founded the Leeds Club. In March 1775, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.[3] He was one of the founding members of the Leeds Library,[4] alongside his friend Joseph Priestley and other surgeons, clergymen, leading industrialists and businessmen.[5]

Family

Hey married Alice Banks (c.1737–1820) in 1761. Two of their sons William Hey (1772–1844) and Richard Hey became surgeons and worked with their father.[6] William Hey III (1796–1875) was appointed Surgeon to the Leeds Infirmary in 1830, and took over the family practice in 1844.[7] He married the poet Rebecca Hey in 1821.

Publications
  • 'Observations on the Blood, 1779
  • Practical Observations in Surgery, 1803
  • Tracts and Essays, Moral and Theological, including a Defence of the Doctrines of the Divinity of Christ, and of the Atonement, 1822

References
  1. DeLacy, Margaret. "Hey, William". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/13163. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. "William Hey". Who Named It?. Retrieved 17 March 2009.
  3. "Library and Archive Catalogue". Royal Society. Retrieved 19 November 2010.
  4. "William Hey FRS (1736–1819) – They Lived in Leeds – Thoresby Society". thoresby.org.uk. Retrieved 30 December 2021.
  5. "About Us". The Leeds Library. 16 January 2017. Retrieved 30 December 2021.
  6. "William Hey (1736–1819), FRS, surgeon and Mayor of Leeds – Library | University of Leeds". explore.library.leeds.ac.uk. Retrieved 29 December 2021.
  7. "Search Results for william hey III". livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk. Retrieved 29 December 2021.

Further reading
  • DeLacy, Margaret (2004). "Hey, William (1736–1819)" (available online to subscribers). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/13163.
  • Pearson, John (1823). The life of William Hey, Esq., F.R.S. Hurst, Robinson, and Co. (London).
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