Humphry Davy Rolleston. 1929. The Right Honourable Sir Thomas Clifford Allbutt. London: Macmillan.
Get it: All sources.- 15 December 1846: Charlotte Brontë tells Ellen Nussey of cold, boredom and debts at Haworth
- 19 September 1866: Consciously breaking with medical tradition, Clifford Allbutt, physician, and Claudius Galen Wheelhouse, surgeon, cooperate at Leeds Infirmary to cure a pericarditis
- 14 January 1867: Clifford Allbutt of the Leeds Infirmary writes to the Medical Times praising his five-minute Celsius pocket clinical thermometer
- 14 September 1868: Clifford Allbutt welcomes George Eliot to his house and new hospital in Leeds
- 28 December 1872: The tower of St Peter’s, Earlsheaton (Dewsbury) rings a true peal of Kent treble bob major – 16,608 changes in 9 hours 50 minutes – setting a new national record
- 29 June 1876: Uplifted, Harrogate parish church awaits the monstrous £1,800 Schulze organ from Thomas Stuart Kennedy’s Meanwood Towers, Leeds
- 16 February 1886: Clifford Allbutt explains to James Crichton-Browne why three years later he was to trade a lucrative medical consulting career in Leeds for a less well paid Commissionership in Lunacy in London
- 23 January 1888: Dr Henry Arthur Allbutt of Leeds launches a crowdfunder against being struck off for the affordability of his obstetrics and gynaecology manual for women
- 9 July 1903: Clifford Allbutt, late of Leeds, tells a Bradford sanitary congress to reject the view that (preventive) medicine is antagonistic to the survival of the fittest
- 19 October 1909: Opening a nurses’ home in Dewsbury, Clifford Allbutt describes their predecessors in the Leeds fever hospital in the 1860s
- 13 April 1915: During the wartime Serbian typhus epidemic, Clifford Allbutt recalls the open-air treatment he used in the 1865-66 outbreak in Leeds
- 7 November 1920: In a guest sermon in the parish church where his father had officiated, Clifford Allbutt evokes the village of Dewsbury in the 1840s
- 29 December 1921: On the death of the Huddersfield-born Cambridge professor of pathology, G.S. Woodhead, his colleague Clifford Allbutt recalls his arrival from the north
- 15 April 1924: Writing to The Lancet, Clifford Allbutt tells how a nursing hack eliminated (typhoid) thromboses in the Leeds fever hospital in the 1860s
- 27 April 1924: In a letter to Edmund Gosse, Clifford Allbutt recalls the Brontës
- 8 January 1925: Writing to Berkeley Moynihan, Clifford Allbutt recalls surgery at Leeds Infirmary in the 1860s
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