Edmund Owen

Last updated

Edmund Owen
Born(1847-04-07)7 April 1847
Finchingfield, Essex
Died 23 July 1915(1915-07-23) (aged 68)
Charing Cross Hospital, London
Nationality British
Occupation Physician

Edmund Blackett Owen, FRCS (1847–1915) was an English surgeon. [1]

Contents

Biography

He was the third son of a practicing doctor of Finchingfield, Essex and educated in nearby Bishops Stortford.

After studying medicine at St Mary's Hospital, London, Owen was appointed Resident Medical Officer and Demonstrator of Anatomy at St Mary's in 1868 and Lecturer of Anatomy in 1876. He was made M.R.C.S. in 1868 and F.R.C.S. in 1876. He also studied medicine in Paris and was made Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur. [2] For many years he was a surgeon at both St Mary's Hospital and the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street.

St Marys Hospital, London Hospital in London

St Mary's Hospital is an NHS hospital in Paddington, in the City of Westminster, London, founded in 1845. Since the UK's first academic health science centre was created in 2008, it has been operated by Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, which also operates Charing Cross Hospital, Hammersmith Hospital, Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital and the Western Eye Hospital.

The Legion of Honour is the highest French order of merit for military and civil merits, established in 1802 by Napoleon Bonaparte and retained by all later French governments and régimes.

Great Ormond Street Hospital Hospital in London

Great Ormond Street Hospital is a children's hospital located in the Bloomsbury area of the London Borough of Camden, and a part of Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust.

He was elected President of the Harveian Society in 1887 and President of the Medical Society of London in 1898. [3]

Medical Society of London

The Medical Society of London is one of the oldest surviving medical societies in the United Kingdom.

Honours

Order of Saint John (chartered 1888) British royal order of chivalry constituted in 1888

The Order of St John, formally the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem and also known as St John International, is a British royal order of chivalry first constituted in 1888 by royal charter from Queen Victoria.

The Bradshaw Lectures are prestigious lectureships given at the invitation of the Royal College of Physicians and the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

A Royal College of Surgeons or Royal Surgical College is a type of organisation found in many present and former members of the Commonwealth of Nations. These organisations are responsible for training surgeons and setting their examinations. In this context, the term chartered implies the awarding of a Royal charter.

Family

Owen was married in 1882 and his wife died in 1906. Upon his own death in 1915 he was survived by four daughters. [3]

Books

Related Research Articles

Richard Quain Irish doctor

Sir Richard Quain, 1st Baronet, was an Irish physician.

William Scovell Savory British surgeon

Sir William Scovell Savory, 1st Baronet was a British surgeon.

Richard Quain was an English anatomist and surgeon, born at Fermoy, Ireland, a brother of Jones Quain. He studied medicine in London and in Paris. He was appointed demonstrator in 1828 and professor of anatomy in 1832 at the University of London, resigning in 1850, and assistant surgeon in 1834 and surgeon in 1848 to the North London Hospital, from which he resigned in 1866. He was president of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1868.

Francis Sibson British anatomist

Francis Sibson FRS was an English physician and anatomist.

Sir Norman Moore, 1st Baronet British historian and doctor

Sir Norman Moore, 1st Baronet FRCP was a British doctor and historian, best known for his work with the Royal College of Physicians and his writings on history of medicine. Born in Higher Broughton, Salford, Lancashire, the only child of abolitionist and social reformer Rebecca Moore, née Fisher, of Limerick and the noted Irish political economist Robert Ross Rowan Moore, Moore worked in a cotton mill before studying natural sciences in Cambridge and then going on to study comparative anatomy at St Bartholomew's Hospital.

Robert Marcus Gunn Scottish ophthalmologist

Robert Marcus Gunn was a Scottish ophthalmologist remembered for Gunn's sign and the Marcus Gunn pupil.

Samuel Osborne Habershon British pathologist

Samuel Osborne Habershon was an English physician.

Arthur Farre British doctor

Arthur Farre FRS was an English obstetric physician.

George Murray Humphry anatomist

Sir George Murray Humphry, FRS was a professor of physiology and anatomy at Cambridge, surgeon, gerontologist and medical writer.

John Syer Bristowe British physician

John Syer Bristowe (1827–1895) was an English physician.

Dennis Embleton MRCS, FRCS, LSA, MD (Pisa) MD FRCP, was a Newcastle medical doctor and surgeon of the middle and late 19th century.

Holburt Waring English surgeon

Sir Holburt Jacob Waring, 1st Baronet, CBE, FRCS was a surgeon at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London and was vice-chancellor of the University of London from 1922 to 1924.

Anthony Bowlby English surgeon

Major-General Sir Anthony Alfred Bowlby, 1st Baronet was a British Army officer, surgeon and pathologist.

Joseph Frank Payne (1840–1910) was an English physician, known also as a historian of medicine.

James Goodhart (1845–1916) was an English physician whose work extended into various medical fields, including morbid pathology and paediatrics. He held positions in a number of London hospitals and institutions, including Guy’s Hospital and the Evelina Hospital for Sick Children. After his retirement, he set up in private practice in Portland Place, London. In 1911, Goodhart was awarded the baronetcy of Portland Place and Hoylte.

Walter Jessop (surgeon) ophthalmologist

Walter Hamilton Hylton Jessop FRCS (1853–1917), Hunterian Professor of comparative anatomy and physiology (1887-8), Ophthalmic Surgeon, Senior Ophthalmic Surgeon to St Bartholomew's Hospital (1901), President of the Ophthalmological Society of the United Kingdom (1915–17) and someone who ‘made a unique position for himself in the ophthalmological world and was probably the best known of English ophthalmic surgeons to his brethren on the Continent of Europe’.

Timothy Holmes FRCS was an English surgeon, known as the editor of several editions of Gray's Anatomy.

J. Warrington Haward FRCS was an English surgeon, noteworthy as the last President of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London before it became expanded into the Royal Society of Medicine.

Sir Dyce Duckworth, 1st Baronet

Sir Dyce Duckworth, 1st Baronet (1840–1928) was a British surgeon, physician, dermatologist, and author of A Treatise on Gout (1889), which was translated into French and German.

Frederick William Andrewes British pathologist and bacteriologist

Sir Frederick William Andrewes was an English physician, pathologist, and bacteriologist.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Owen, Edmund". Who's Who: 1599. 1914.
  2. "Obituary. Edmund Owen". British Medical Journal. 2 (2848): 200–203. 31 July 1915.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Owen, Edmund Blackett (1847 - 1915) – Biographical entry – Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Online]". Royal College of Surgeons. Retrieved 16 July 2015.
  4. "No. 27172". The London Gazette . 9 March 1900. p. 1628.