Rigby, Anna (Palgrave), c 1843-1847

From a typed note pasted on the page: "Rigby, Edward (1747-1821), physician; published a work on uterine haemorrhage in 1776, which was translated into French and German; visited France, 1789, 'Letters from France' forming a useful supplement to Arthur Young's observations; practised in Norwich; mayor of Norwich, 1805. [xlviii. 305]. From a second typed note pasted on the page: Rigby, Edward (1804-1860), obstertrician; son of Edward Rigby (1747-1821) [q. v.]; M.D. Edinburgh, 1825; studied midwifery at Berlin and Heidelberg and became physician at the Lying-in Hospital at Lambeth; F.L.S.; F.R.C.P., 1843; regarded as the first obstetric physician in London after Sir Charles Locock [q. v.] retired from practice. [xlviii. 301]".