# Fielding Ould

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'''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](/source/Paris) and settled in [Golden Lane, Dublin](/source/Golden_Lane%2C_Dublin) as a [medical practitioner](/source/medical_practitioner) in 1736. He published an enormously influential treatise on [midwifery](/source/midwifery) in 1742, although it was criticized for a number of factual errors.

An [obstetrician](/source/obstetrician), he acquired a huge practice and was master of the [Rotunda Hospital](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Freeman's_Journal)|language=en|pages=3}}</ref>

He was appointed [Sheriff of Dublin City](/source/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](/source/St._Ann's_Church%2C_Dawson_Street), [Dawson Street](/source/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](/source/chaplain) of the Rotunda Hospital. Later descendants included the painter Sir Fielding Fielding-Ould, and the noted architect [William Vitruvius Morrison](/source/William_Vitruvius_Morrison).

==Bibliography==
* [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009273070 ''A Treatise of Midwifry, in three parts''], [Dublin](/source/Dublin), 1742

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* {{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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Category:Medical doctors from Galway (city)
Category:1710 births
Category:1789 deaths
Category:Irish obstetricians
Category:Medical doctors from Dublin (city)
Category:18th-century Irish medical doctors
Category:Health professionals from County Galway
Category:Writers from Galway (city)

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