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William Chester Minor

1834 - 1920

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William Chester Minor (also known as W. C. Minor; 22 June 1834 – 26 March 1920) was an American army surgeon, psychiatric hospital patient, and lexicographical researcher. After serving in the Union Army during the American Civil War, Minor moved to England. Affected by delusions, he shot a man who he believed had broken into his room, and was consequently committed from 1872 to 1910 to a secure British psychiatric hospital. While incarcerated, Minor became an important contributor to the Oxford English Dictionary. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. William Chester Minor is the 471st most popular physician (down from 252nd in 2019), the 19th most popular biography from Sri Lanka (down from 6th in 2019) and the most popular Sri Lankan Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, William Chester Minor ranks 471 out of 726. Before him are William Bayliss, Nikolay Gamaleya, William Stukeley, Kazimierz Bein, Diocles of Carystus, and Helen B. Taussig. After him are Ferdinand Ritter von Hebra, David Cooper, Petrus Alphonsi, Warren Sturgis McCulloch, William Turner, and Ernst Gottlieb von Steudel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1834, William Chester Minor ranks 60. Before him are Julius Reubke, Hugo Schiff, Grigoriy Myasoyedov, Piet Joubert, Albert Niemann, and John Gilbert Baker. After him are Frederick DuCane Godman, Todor Burmov, Prince William of Schaumburg-Lippe, Majid bin Said of Zanzibar, Adrien René Franchet, and Vilém Blodek. Among people deceased in 1920, William Chester Minor ranks 73. Before him are Delfim Moreira, Adolf Albin, Nataliya Kobrynska, Sarada Devi, Vladimir Kappel, and John Gilbert Baker. After him are Karl Binding, Jaan Poska, Pál Szinyei Merse, Herbert James Draper, Ryu Gwansun, and Vladimir Makovsky.

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In Sri Lanka

Among people born in Sri Lanka, William Chester Minor ranks 19 out of 51. Before him are St John Philby (1885), Michael Ondaatje (1943), S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike (1899), Jack Churchill (1906), Maithripala Sirisena (1951), and D. S. Senanayake (1883). After him are M. G. Ramachandran (1917), John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher (1841), Ratnasiri Wickremanayake (1933), William Gopallawa (1896), Natalia (null), and D. M. Jayaratne (1931).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Sri Lanka

Among physicians born in Sri Lanka, William Chester Minor ranks 1. 

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