Background
BYERS, John William was born in Shanghai. Only child of late Reverend John Byers, Master of Arts (Glas.), missionary to China, and Margaret Byers, Doctor of Laws University, Dublin, daughter of Andrew Morrow, Windsor Hill, Rathfriland.
BYERS, John William was born in Shanghai. Only child of late Reverend John Byers, Master of Arts (Glas.), missionary to China, and Margaret Byers, Doctor of Laws University, Dublin, daughter of Andrew Morrow, Windsor Hill, Rathfriland.
Royal Academical Institution. Queen's College, Belfast (Senior Scholar in Natural Science and Senior Scholar in Medicine, Midwifery, and Medical Jurisprudence). Dublin; London; Gold Medallist and 1st of 1st class Honours at Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees of Queen's University of Ireland.
Honours at Doctor of Medicine, Honorary M.A.O. (Master of Obstetrics) of Royal University of Ireland.
Beginning practice in Belfast 1879, was first appointed to the Children’s Hospital. In 1882 organised the department for Diseases of Women at the Royal Victoria Hospital.
Master of Arts. Doctor of Medicine.
President Belfast Literary Society, 1885-1886. Honourable President of International Congress of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 1896. Vice-President Obstetrical Society of London, 1899-1901.
President Ulster Medical Society, 1893-1894.
President North of Ireland Branch of British Medical Association, 1900- 1901. President Belfast Branch of Irish Medical Association, 1903-1909.
President, Section of Obstetric Medicine and Gynecology, British Medical Associate Cheltenham, 1901. Governor of Campbell College, Belfast.
President, Section of Physical Education and Training in Personal Hygiene, International Congress on School Hygiene, London, 1907.
President Belfast Natural History and Philosophical Society, 1908-1910. Member of Council of British Medical Association, 1902-1906. Fellow Royal Society of Medicine.
In 1904 was presented by his friends with his portrait.
Professor of Midwifery and of Diseases of Women and Children, The Queen's University of Belfast. Physiciaii for bisCases of Women to the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast.
Physician to the Belfast Maternity Hospital. And Consulting Physician to the Belfast Hospital for Sick Children.
Ex - Examiner in Obstetric Medicine to Royal University of Ireland. M.A.O. (honorary causa), Royal University of Ireland.