| Description | Marble bust of Arthur Jacob
Indentured in 1808 to his father John Jacob (surgeon at the Queen's Co. Infirmary, Maryborough), entered RCSI in 1811, was a pupil of Abraham Colles at Dr Steevens' Hospital Dublin and received his RCSI licentiateship in 1813. He became Member of RCSI in 1816 and established himself in private practice as an ophtalmologist. An outstanding figure in the Irish School of medicine, he contributed to research, medical education and the organisation of the profession. He founded the Park St School of Medicine with Robert Graves and went on to become Professor of Anatomy in RCSI (1827-1867). An active member of RCSI, he was a Council member, nominated censor and elected Presidnet (1837, 1864). He founded the Charitable Institute for the Cure of Diseases of the Skin and Eye, the Ophthalmic Hosptial on Balfe S, later transferred to the Royal City of Dublin Hospital of which Jacob was also a co-founder. He founded the Dublin Medical Press with Henry Maunsell and in later years founded the Irish Medical Association with Richard Carmichael. The bust was commissioned to institute the commemorative Arthur Jacob open medical scholarship. |