Ernest Clarke, Dictionary of National Biography (1901)
“ Considerable disapproval was, however, manifested at his undertaking to lecture on cattle pathology, a subject in which he was not considered to be sufficiently qualified, his department being rather that of surgery. ”
Ernest Clarke, Dictionary of National Biography (1901)
“ SEWELL, WILLIAM (1780–1853) , veterinarian, third principal of the Royal Veterinary College, London, was born in 1780 of quaker parents resident in Essex. He was apprenticed at an early age, probably in 1796, to Edward Coleman (1764?-1839) , the second principal of the Veterinary College; and at Coleman's request Sewell was appointed his assistant at the college on obtaining his diploma in 1799. ”
