1ST BART SIR See also: - THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
English surgeon, was born at St Albans on the 3rd of February 1818, and received his medical education in Leeds, Dublin and St See also: - THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
's Hospital, London (M.R.C.S
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1841)
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From 1841 to 1848 he served as a surgeon in the navy, and in 1848 he went to Paris to study pathology
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In 1853 he settled in London, and took up ophthalmic surgery, interrupting his work to go out to the East in the Crimean War
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In 1854 he became surgeon to the Samaritan Free Hospital for Women and Children, London
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His reputation in surgery had obtained for him in 1844 the fellow- ship of the Royal College of Surgeons, and he subsequently be-came a member of council, Hunterian professor of surgery and pathology (1878), President (1882) and Hunterian Orator (1883)
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In 1883 he was made a baronet
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His name is best known in connexion with his successful revival of the operation of ovariotomy, which had fallen into disrepute owing to the excessive mortality attending it; and in his skilful hands, assisted by modern surgical methods, the operation lost almost all its danger
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His book on Diseases of the Ovaries was published in 1865
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Sir Spencer Wells married in 1853 Miss Elizabeth Wright, and had a son and daughters
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He died on the 31st of January 1897
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His estate at Golder's See also: - HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
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Hampstead, was sold after his death to the London County Council and converted into a public park
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