Background
Bardsley was born at Kelvedon, Essex.
Bardsley was born at Kelvedon, Essex.
He was entered of the Leyden University in August 1786, and graduated there in 1789.
27 April 1764 – 29 May 1851), was an English physician. His medical studies were begun at Nottingham, where he passed an apprenticeship to a surgeon, and followed up at London, Edinburgh, and Leyden. After passing a short time at Doncaster he removed to Manchester in 1790, and was elected physician to the Manchester Infirmary, a position he retained until August 1823, gaining during the thirty-three years great esteem as ‘the very model of an hospital physician.’
He relinquished his professional ‘practice’ many years before his death, which occurred on 29 May 1851, while on a visit to a friend near Hastings.
He was buried at Saint Saviour"s Church, Manchester.