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Nationality
  
British

Occupation
  
Physician

Name
  
Edmund Owen


Edmund Owen Edmund Owen

Born
  
7 April 1847 (
1847-04-07
)
Finchingfield, Essex

Died
  
1915, Charing Cross Hospital, London, United Kingdom

Edmund Blackett Owen FRCS (1847–1915) was an English surgeon.

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Biography

He was the third son of a practicing doctor of Finchingfield, Essex and educated in nearby Bishops Stortford.

After studying medicine at St Mary's Hospital, London, Owen was appointed Resident Medical Officer and Demonstrator of Anatomy at St Mary's in 1868 and Lecturer of Anatomy in 1876. He was made M.R.C.S. in 1868 and F.R.C.S. in 1876. He also studied medicine in Paris and was made Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur. For many years he was a surgeon at both St Mary's Hospital and the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street.

He was elected President of the Harveian Society in 1887 and President of the Medical Society of London in 1898.

He was married in 1882 and his wife died in 1906. Upon his own death in 1915 he was survived by four daughters.

Honours

  • 1887 — President of the Harveian Society
  • 1898 — President of the Medical Society of London
  • 1903 — Cross of the Legion of Honor
  • 1906 — Bradshaw Lecture to Royal College of Surgeons
  • 1911 — Hunterian Oration to Royal College of Surgeons
  • Books

  • The surgical diseases of children. 1885. 
  • A manual of surgery for senior students. 1890. 
  • Cleft-palate and hare-lip. 1904. 
  • Appendicitis: a plea for immediate operation. 1914. 
  • References

    Edmund Owen Wikipedia