- GB-2014-WSA-05260
- Person
- 1815-1872
COOTE, HOLMES, brother of Richard Coote (qv); b. 10 Nov 1815; adm. 18 Jan 1826; apprenticed to Sir William Lawrence, Surgeon to St. Bartholomew’s Hospital; MRCS 1838, FRCS 1844; Assistant Surgeon, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, 1854-63, Surgeon from 1863; Surgeon to British Hospital at Smyrna, 1855, and in the Dardanelles 1856, while on leave of absence during Crimean War; author of a treatise on Joint Diseases, 1867, and of other publications on surgical subjects; m. 1st, 1 Aug 1848 Jessie Blanche, dau. of John Herbert Koe, County Court Judge; m. 2nd, 14 Sep 1852 Georgina Gordon, eldest dau. of Gordon Lorimer, Lidsey Lodge, Sussex; d. 22 Dec 1872. DNB.