SIR

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• PRESCOTT, WILLIAM HICKLING (1796-1859)

PRESCOTT

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• GARDNER
• GARDNER, PERCY (1846– )

GARDNER

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• SIR PRESCOTT GARDNER HEWETT

HEWETT  , Bart . (1812-1891), British surgeon, was born on the 3rd of July 1812, being the son of a Yorkshire country gentleman . He lived for some years in early life in Paris, and started on a career as an artist, but abandoned it for surgery . He entered St George's Hospital, London (where his half-brother, Dr Cornwallis Hewett, was physician from 1825 to 1833) becoming demonstrator of anatomy and curator of the museum . He was the pupil and intimate friend of Sir B . C . Brodie, and helped him in much of his work . Eventually he rose to be anatomical lecturer, assistant-surgeon and surgeon to the hospital . In 1876 he was president of the College of Surgeons; in 1877 he was made serjeant-surgeon extraordinary to Queen Victoria, in 1884 serjeant-surgeon, and in 1883 he was created a baronet . He was a very good lecturer, but shrank from authorship; his lectures on Surgical Affections of the Head were, however, embodied in his treatise on the subject in Holmes's System of Surgery . As a surgeon he was always extremely conservative, but hesitated at no operation, however severe, when convinced of its expediency . He was a perfect operator, and one of the most trustworthy of counsellors .

He died on the 19th of

June 1891 .