Gray, Henry

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Gray, Henry

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1827-1861

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Son of a private messenger to George IV and William IV.

Student at the Kinnerton Street Medical School from c.1842 or 1845; post mortem examiner, curator of the pathology museum & demonstrator of anatomy at St George's Hospital 1848; in 1849, won Triennial prize for his essay, which was read at the Royal Society. House surgeon at St George's Hospital 1850, hospital governor 1852.

Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons 1852, aged 25. Member of the Pathological Society of London 1848; member of the Royal College of Surgeons 1848. Surgeon at St George & St James's Dispensary 1854 (charitable out-patient facility related to St George's Hospital).

Published 'The Structure and Use of the Spleen' in 1854; famous for his 'Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical' (better known as 'Gray's Anatomy') by Parker & Son in 1858, with illustrations by Henry Vandyke Carter, fellow student and demonstrator of anatomy at St George's Hospital.

Candidate for the post of assistant surgeon at St George's Hospital in 1861, he contracted small pox from his nephew, and died shortly afterwards, on 13 Jun 1861, aged 34. He had been engaged to be married.

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Pathology Museum (1843-)

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Roberts, Charles (?-1902)

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Carter, Henry Vandyke (1831-1897)

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Richardson 'The Making of Gray's Anatomy' (2008); Student record 1845 (No 4160)

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