Timothy Holmes | |
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 Timothy Holmes byWilliam Blake Richmond in 1889 | |
| Born | (1825-05-09)9 May 1825 |
| Died | 8 September 1907(1907-09-08) (aged 82) |
Timothy HolmesFRCS (9 May 1825 inIslington,Greater London – 8 September 1907) was an English surgeon, known as the editor of several editions ofGray's Anatomy.[1]
Holmes was the third child of Elizabeth (Hanby) and John Holmes, warehouseman /merchant of 68 Watling St, London.[2] In 1841, Holmes was living in Colebrooke Row, Islington.[3] His siblings were Thomas Holmes,[4] born 1821, and Elizabeth (Peterson Ward) born 1823.[5]
Holmes was educated atMerchant Taylors' School and then atPembroke College, Cambridge with B.A. in 1847 and M.A. in 1850.[6] He studied medicine at St George's Hospital. In 1853 he was made a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons without previously having acquired the usual diploma of M.R.C.S. AtSt George's Hospital he became house surgeon, surgical registrar, and in 1867 full surgeon. Also, at theHospital for Sick Children in Great Ormond Street, Holmes was assistant surgeon from 1859 and then full surgeon from 1861 to 1868. He was also appointed Chief Surgeon of the Metropolitan Police in 1865.[7]
In 1889 Holmes was the chairman of the Building Committee of theRoyal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London; the committee was in charge of moving the Society from its old quarters inBerners Street to a house inHanover Square.[8] In 1890 he was elected the Society's president.[9]
Holmes wroteA Treatise on the Surgical Treatment of the Diseases of Infancy and Childhood (1868) and was the editor of the third through ninth editions ofGray's Anatomy, preceded in the editorship byHenry Gray and succeeded byT. Pickering Pick. Holmes was the co-editor of the first 8 volumes of the journalSt George's Hospital Reports. WithJohn S. Bristowe, Holmes published in 1863 a report, commissioned by thePrivy Council, on the state of hospitals and their administration in the U.K. He was the editor of 4 editions ofA Treatise on Surgery: Its Principles and Practice (1st edition, 1875; 2nd, 1878; 3rd, 1882; 4th, 1886).[10] He wrote a biography ofSir Benjamin Collins Brodie published in 1898.[11] He was a friend of the pathologist andsyphilologistHenry Lee, writing his obituary inThe Lancet in 1898.[12] Holmes also created the first English translation ofLay Down Your Arms! (Die Waffen nieder!) byBertha von Suttner in 1892. The second edition of his translation was published in 1908.[13]
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| Preceded by | Chief Surgeon of the Metropolitan Police 1865-1885 | Succeeded by |