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| Husband: | James Smith Ayerst (1824-1884) | |
| Wife: | Mary Noyes (c. 1818-1889) | |
| Marriage | 1854 | Plymouth, Devon |
| Name: | James Smith Ayerst | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Father: | Francis Ayerst (1780-1829) | |
| Mother: | Sarah Ann Smith (c. 1791-1831) | |
| Birth | 1824 | Brompton, Kent |
| Baptism | 2 Jul 1824 (age 0) | St Mary Magdalene, Gillingham, Kent |
| Death | 15 Mar 1884 (age 59-60) | Stanbury, Lower Warberry Road, Torquay, Devon |
| Name: | Mary Noyes | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Father: | - | |
| Mother: | - | |
| Birth | c. 1818 | |
| Death fact | 1889 (age 70-71) | GRO Reference: 1889 J Quarter in ST GILES Volume 01B Page 332 (aged 71, Mary Ayrest) |
| Death | 24 Jun 1889 (age 70-71) | 60 Gower Street, London |
James Smith Ayerst (1824-1885) was a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1859 having having graduated in 1847 as Assistant Surgeon to the Royal Navy on the Flag Ship Hibernia, and later on the Hogue, and he went round the Cape of Good Hope on the Maender in 1852.
James Smith Ayerst was an eminent homeopathic physician and surgeon, whose patients included Charles Darwin. The pharmaceutical manufacturing business he founded merged with Wyeth to become Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories. Wyeth is now part of Pfizer.
Ayerst worked alongside James Manby Gully at Old Well House, Malvern Wells 1857–68, and at the Hydropathic establishment at Malvern in the 1850s and had taken over from Gully by 1858. Charles Darwin went to see James Smith Ayerst there for treatment in 1863.
Ayerst is listed in the Homeopathic Medical Directory of Great Britain and Ireland in 1871, practicing at 2 Belgrade Terrace, Torquay, (between 1868–84).
Source: https://www.sueyounghistories.com/2008-03-14-the-ayerst-surname-and-homeopathy/
AYERST James Smith M.D., 26 April 1884. The Will of James Smith Ayerst late of Stanbury Lower Warberry Road Torquay in the County of Devon M.D. who died 15 March 1884 at Stanbury was proved at the Principal Registry by Mary Ayerst of Stanbury Widow the Relict the sole Executrix. Personal Estate £1,921 14s. 11d.
AYERST Mary, 23 July 1889. The Will with a Codicil of Mary Ayerst late of Stanbury Torquay in the County of Devon Widow who died 24 June 1889 at 60 Gower Street in the County of London was proved at the Principal Registry by Anna Noyes of Stanbury Spinster the Sister the sole Executrix. Personal Estate £2,583 0s. 7d.