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Reddy, John, 1822-1884
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Dates of existence
1822-1884
History
John Reddy was born on March 31, 1822, in Athlone, Ireland.
He was a physician. In 1848, he received his M.D. degree from the University of Glasgow, Scotland, and moved to Canada in 1851. He was licenced to practice in Quebec in 1852 and became House Surgeon and an attending physician at the Montreal General Hospital. He was a member of the Corporation of the Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning and was elected President of the Montreal Medico-Chirurgical Society in 1874. Reddy also received an ad eundem M.D. from McGill University in 1856. Montreal’s Reddy Memorial Hospital (1870–1997) was named after John Reddy’s physician son, Herbert Lionel Reddy (1854-1936).
In 1851, he married Jane Fleming (1813–1878). He died on January 23, 1884, in Dublin, Ireland.