John Hughes Bennett PRCPE FRSE was an English physician, physiologist and pathologist. His main contribution to medicine has been the first description of leukemia as a blood disorder (1845). The first person to describe leukemia as an unknown disease was Alfred François Donné.
John Hughes Bennett
John Hughes Bennett
Bust of John Hughes Bennett by William Brodie, 1875, Old College, University of Edinburgh
The grave of John Hughes Bennett (right), Dean Cemetery
Mount Radford School was a private day and boarding school for boys in Exeter, Devon, England. It was commonly known as Vines School, as the Vine family provided three of the school's four headmasters, and was also known as Mount Radford College, and The Exeter Public School.
Mount Radford Headmasters