Grindrod, Cyril John Wedemeyer
Surgeon at St George's Hospital 1735-1774. Sergeant-surgeon to King George II and III. Created a baronet by George III in 1776.
Inventor of the cutting gorget.
One of the first medical officers at St George’s Hospital, 1733-c.1735. Physician. Doctor of Medicine of Leyden, Netherlands. Naturalised British citizen.
Physician to George I in 1715. Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians 1720, Fellow of the Royal Society 1725. Physician to the Westminster Infirmary 1728; resigned on his appointment to St George’s. Physician-in-ordinary to George II in 1739. Physician to Chelsea College in 1740.
Protégé of Hans Sloane.
Died 22 May 1742, unmarried.
One of the first medical officers at St George’s Hospital, 1733. Physician. Scottish. Graduated MD at Leyden in 1711, aged 36; prior to this, he was at sea with merchant ships 1701-1706. He sailed to Madeira [Portugal], the Cape of Good Hope [South Africa], Fort St George [Chennai, India], Bengala [Bengal, Bangladesh] and Malacca [Malaysia], and later to Persia [Iran], Surat [Gujarat, India], Bombay [Mumbai, India], Malabar [Indonesia], Borneo [Indonesia] and China. He is recorded having procured ‘specimens and curiosities’ for Hans Sloane from these journeys.
Appointed physician to the Westminster Infirmary in 1819; resigned on being elected to St George’s in 1733-1736. Physician-in-Ordinary to Queen Caroline 1723. Fellow of the College of Physicians and the Royal Society.
Invested and lost money in the South Sea Bubble.
Married to Susannah Wishaw c.1725. Died 15 Sep 1742.
Son of S.B. Cowan, surgeon. Born in Bath.
Student at St George's Hospital Medical School and Bath Hospital. MRCS 1878, LRCP 1881.
Senior physician at Eastern Dispensary. Justice's Visitor in Lunacy. Senior medical officer at the Royal United Hospital in Bath. Succeeded his father in practice in Bath.
Died at Bath 20 Oct 1908, aged 57.