{{Short description|Irish physician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}} thumb|Portrait. Credit: Wellcome Library '''Sir Fielding Ould''' (1710–29 November 1789) was an Irish doctor and medical writer.<ref>{{cite DNB|wstitle=Ould, Fielding}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Clendening, Logan|title=Source Book of Medical History|chapter=Fielding Ould (p. 181)|year=1960|publisher=Dover Publications|isbn=9780486206219|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H5bqAIr4YcgC&pg=PA181|postscript=; orig. pub. in 1942 by P. B. Hoeber, Inc.}}</ref>
Ould was the son of British Army Captain Abraham Ould (1689–1715) and a Miss Shawe of Galway, in which city he was born. He studied in Paris and settled in Golden Lane, Dublin as a medical practitioner in 1736. He published an enormously influential treatise on midwifery in 1742, although it was criticized for a number of factual errors.
An obstetrician, he acquired a huge practice and was master of the Rotunda Hospital (the Dublin lying-in hospital). After a lengthy battle, he was eventually granted his licence as a physician. In 1759, he was knighted for services to the medical profession.
Ould was one of 49 physicians and chirurgeons who declared their public support for the construction of a Publick Bath in Dublin in May 1771 and named Achmet Borumborad as a well qualified individual for carrying such a scheme into existence.<ref name = FJc>{{Cite news |date=1771-05-04|title=The Approbation of the Physicians...|newspaper=Freeman's Journal|language=en|pages=3}}</ref>
He was appointed Sheriff of Dublin City in 1775.
He died of apoplexy at his home on South Frederick Street and was buried at St. Ann's Churchyard, Dawson Street.<ref>{{cite journal|author=Dunn, Peter M.|year=1999|title=Bartholomew Mosse (1712–59), Sir Fielding Ould (1710–89), and the Rotunda Hospital, Dublin|journal=Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition|volume=81|issue=1|pages= F74–F76|url=http://fn.bmj.com/content/81/1/F74.full|doi=10.1136/fn.81.1.f74|pmid=10375370|pmc=1720960}}</ref>
He had at least two children, including William, who was chaplain of the Rotunda Hospital. Later descendants included the painter Sir Fielding Fielding-Ould, and the noted architect William Vitruvius Morrison.
==Bibliography== * [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009273070 ''A Treatise of Midwifry, in three parts''], Dublin, 1742
==References== ;Notes {{reflist}} ;Sources * {{cite book|author=Maher, Helen|title=Galway authors: a contribution towards a biographical and bibliographical index, with an essay on the history and literature in Galway|year=1976|publisher=Galway County Libraries|isbn=0950559504|postscript=; 116 pages}}
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