Samuel Howard (surgeon)

Life

Howard qualified as surgeon, with diploma from Surgeons' Hall, after a year of training at St George's Hospital. He was in practice in Covent Garden, and was surgeon to the London Lock Hospital. He became house surgeon to the Middlesex Hospital in 1758.

Howard was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1771. In 1797 he became surgeon to the Prince of Wales, on the death of Richard Grindall.