William Cecil BosanquetFRCP (12 October 1866, Whiligh estate nearWadhurst,Sussex – 24 January 1941, London) was an English physician and classical scholar.[1]
After education atEton, Bosanquet matriculated atNew College, Oxford, where he achieved a first inhonour moderations in classics in 1887 and a first inliterae humaniores in 1889. He studied medicine at the University of Oxford and atCharing Cross Hospital, graduating with B.M. and D.M. degrees in 1897. At Charing Cross Hospital he was appointed pathologist in 1900, assistant physician in 1903, and full physician in 1913. He also held appointments atRoyal Brompton Hospital and originated theBrompton Hospital Reports in 1931. He was an assistant editor forThe Practitioner for some years until the end of 1904. He was elected FRCP in 1904. He delivered the 1905Goulstonian Lectures onSome Considerations on the Nature of Diabetes Mellitus. Bosanquet edited the 10th edition in 1905 of Green'sPathology and Morbid Anatomy.[2]
He edited the 11th edition in 1911, the co-editor withW. W. C. Topley of the 12th edition in 1918, and the co-editor withG. S. Wilson of the 13th edition in 1923.[citation needed]
DuringWWI, Bosanquet served as captain and then major in theRAMC.[1] He became a staff member of the 4th London General Hospital (which was one of four hospitals in Greater London opened in August 1914) and was afterwards attached to the 44th General Hospital inDeolali, India, serving in 1919 as a consulting physician to theNorth-West Frontier Force.[2]
In addition to numerous articles in theLancet andBritish Medical Journal, he was the author of “Serums, Vaccines and Toxins”(1904), in the second and third editions of which Dr.J. W. H. Eyre was his collaborator, “The Stomach, Intestines and Pancreas” with Mr. H. S. Clogg, his surgical colleague at Charing Cross Hospital (1909), and “Spirochaetes: A Review of Recent Work with Some Original Observations” (1911).[1]
Admiral George S. Bosanquet, A.D.C. (1835–1914) was W. Cecil Bosanquet's father.[2] On 27 October 1884 George S. Bosanquet was appointed one of thenavalaides-de-camp to the Queen.[3][4]
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