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Walter Butler Cheadle

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Born: October 14 1835

Died: 2424 03 19101910

, physician, born at Colne on 15 Oct. 1835, was son of James Cheadle, thirteenth wrangler at Cambridge in 1831, who was vicar of Christ Church, Come, Lancashire. His mother was Eliza, daughter of John Butler of Ruddington, Nottinghamshire. Educated at the grammar school of Bingley, Yorkshire, of which town his father became vicar in 1837, he proceeded in 1855 to Cambridge as a scholar of Gonville and Caius College. In 1859, when a family bereavement prevented him from rowing in the university eight, he graduated B.A. In 1861 he took the M.B. degree, having studied medicine both at Cambridge and at St. George's Hospital, London. In June 1862 he started with William Fitzwilliam, Viscount Milton , to explore the then little known western parts of Canada. After their return in 1864 they published in their joint names a successful account of their travels as 'The North-West Passage by Land' , which soon ran through eight editions. A ninth and last edition appeared in 1891. The book was written by Cheadle, and narrates a notable series of hardships faced with indomitable courage in mountainous and untracked country. The expedition conducted by Sir Sandford Fleming in 1892 through the Rocky mountains to plan the Canadian Pacific railway was guided largely by the track of Cheadle and his companion.

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Walter Butler Cheadle

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Books from Walter Butler Cheadle

The North-West Passage by Land

Cheadle's Journal Of Trip Across Canada: 1862-1863

The Sickening (and Strange) History of Medicine: An Anthology

Occasional Lectures on the Practice of Medicine: Addressed Chiefly to the Students of St. Mary's Medical School; To Which Are Appended the Harveian Lectures on the Rheumatism of Childhood, Revised and Corrected Up to Date (Classic Reprint)