Mossop, Dr

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Mossop, Dr

Watercolour portrait of Dr Mossop

from John Sowden's notebooks:

"Was a native of Whitehaven, Cumberland, being the eldest son of the late Captain Charles Mossop. He was educated at Saint Bees Grammar School and at Edinburgh University at the Royal College of Surveyors.

For a time he was resident medical officer of the Edinburgh Royal Hospital for Sick Children and of the Edinburgh Infirmary. He came to Bradford quite a young man and soon occupied and honoured position. He was president of the Bradford Medico-Ethical Society in 1884-5. In 1906 he was chairman of the Bradford division of the British Medical Association, succeeding in the following year to the presidency of the Yorkshire branch of that body, of the Council of which he was a member.

He was a corresponding fellow of the Obstetrical Society and an extra ordinary member of the Royal medical Society.

He was author of many papers to the medical journals. He was closely associated with the Bradford Children's Hospital ever since its foundation, first as house surgeon and in later years as senior consultant physician. In the Bradford Women's Home and Shelter and the Nurses Institution he has had for many years taken great interest. He was a leading member of the committee of the Bradford branch of the National Lifeboat Institution, and he had for more than 30 years since its formation been actively identified with the Lister Park Band Fund Committee of which body he was vice-president. He was made a Justice of the Peace for the city in 1909. Dr Mossop was a Unionist in politics at the staunch and devoted churchman.

His association with the Volunteer Movement began in 1874 when he was appointed(?) surgeon lieutenant of the old second W. Yorkshire artillery. He received the volunteer decoration and retired in 1916 with the rank of colonel.

He was a prominent Freemason and was Past Provincial Grand Officer of West Yorkshire in the Craft and also in the Royal Arch. Mr Mossop married in 1873 the daughter of the late Mr John C Christie of Edinburgh and had issue six daughters and four sons. He died in 1916."

Year

1911

Creator

Sowden

Image filename

sowden-317