Costello , William Birmingham , 1800-1867 , surgeon

William Birmingham Costello was born in Dublin in 1800. He was educated locally and moved to London as a consulting surgeon in c 1832. He became a medical superintendant of Wyke House Asylum, near Isleworth. He was a member of the Royal College of Physicians, London and a member of the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh. He was the editor of the Cyclopedia of Surgery published in London, in twelve parts from 1841-1843. He was also the editor of Pinel's 'Lectures on Insanity', Medical Times, 1845. Costello spent the latter part of his life in Paris, where he died in 1867.