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Joseph Henry Green

1791–1863

Surgeon. Surgeon, St. Thomas’s Hospital, 1820–52. Professor of anatomy, Royal College of Surgeons, 1823; Royal Academy, 1825–52. Professor of surgery, King’s College, London, 1830–6. President, Royal College of Surgeons, 1849, 1858. President of the General Medical Council, 1860. Literary executor of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. FRS 1825.

Sources

ODNB

Plarr 1930.

Bibliography

ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.

Plarr, Victor Gustave. 1930. Plarr’s lives of the fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Revised by Sir D’Arcy Power. 2 vols. London: Simpkin Marshall.

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