Leftwich, Ralph Winnington

Epithet: Dr physician and writer?

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A Shakespeare commemorative service was held in Southwark Cathedral on 23 April 1909. This appeared to occur on (or rather the day before) the 345th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth, and had been organised by Dr. Ralph Winnington Leftwich.

In 1912 the polymath and homeopath Ralph Winnington Leftwich M.D. (1849-1919) had written a pamphlet entitled Bacon is not Shakespeare refuting claims years made by Sir Edward Durning-Lawrence in Bacon is Shakespeare . Leftwich had also published An index of symptoms as an aid to diagnosis (1888 in India), The international alphabet (1898), An index of symptoms as a clew to diagnosis (1904), Aids to rational therapeutics: with US pharmacopoeia (1918), and The evidence of disease in Shakespeare's handwriting (1918).

From the guide to the Collection of Correspondence relating to the Shakespeare Commemorative Service, Southwark Cathedral, 23 April 1909, 1908-1909, (Edinburgh University Library)