Doctors

A collection of mini-biographies of some of the many medical staff who worked at the Hospital over the period 1852-1914. Some biographies include the reminiscences of Dr John Poynton, one of Hospital’s longest serving medical men, derived from a manuscript of his memoir s of his time at Great Ormond Street. Other sources used include personal papers in the Hospital archive, Monk’s Roll and the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

• Sir George Frederic Still
• Sir Thomas Smith: Great Ormond Street's Famous Victorian Surgeon
• William Jenner, Great Ormond Street's First Physician
• Sir Charles Alfred Ballance (1856–1936)
• Sir Thomas Barlow (1845-1945)
• Frederick Eustace Batten (1865-1918)
• Dr David Bridge Lees (1846-1915)
• Walter Stacy Colman (1864-1934)
• Dr Walter Butler Cheadle (1835–1910)
• Dr William Howship Dickinson (1832-1913)
• Sir Archibald Edward Garrod (1857–1936)
• Timothy Holmes (1825–1907)
• Sir Robert Hutchison (1871–1960)
• Dr Samuel Jones Gee (1839-1911)
• Sir William Arbuthnot Lane (1856–1943)
• Francis George Penrose (1857-1932)
• Dr Frederic John Poynton (1869-1943)
• Dr Octavius Sturges (1833–1894)
• Arthur Francis Voelcker (1861-1946)
• Dr Charles West (1816-1898)

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