Stokes

Stokes, WILLIAM (1804-77), physician, studied at Edinburgh, and in 1845 became regius professor of Medicine in Dublin University. He wrote lectures on the Theory and Practice of Medicine (1837), and works on the diseases of the chest and of the heart and on continued fevers.—His eldest son, WHITLEY STOKES, born at Dublin in 1830, studied law at Trinity College, went to India in 1863, and after holding a series of important legal appointments was in 1877-82 president of the Indian law-commission and draughtsman of the present civil and criminal codes. He has written many legal works, including The Anglo-Indian Codes (1887-91), and edited a large number of Irish and other Celtic texts. He is LL.D., D.C.L., C.S.I., C.I.E.