HOME, SIR EVERARD, BART., son of Robert Boyne Home, Greenlaw Castle, Berwickshire, Surgeon, 16th Light Dragoons, and Mary, dau. of Col. --- Hutchinson; b. 6 May 1756; adm. 17 Jan 1770; KS 1770; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1773, but was never adm.; pupil to his brother-in-law, the surgeon John Hunter, at St. George’s Hospital; qualified at Surgeons’ Hall 1778; Assistant Surgeon, Naval Hospital, Plymouth; Surgeon to 1st battn., 60th Foot 2 Dec 1782; Apothecary and Storekeeper, Jamaica 25 Dec 1782; half-pay 6 Oct 1784; Staff Surgeon, Great Britain 14 Jun 1793; retd. Sep 1794; after his return from Jamaica in 1784 Home acted as John Hunter’s assistant for some years; Lecturer on Anatomy, St. George’s Hospital 1792, Surgeon to St. George’s Hospital 1793-1827; Professor of Anatomy and Surgery, College of Surgeons 1804-13, 1821, Hunterior Orator 1814, 1822, President 1821; Serjeant-Surgeon to Kings George III and George IV from 9 Mar 1809; created baronet 27 Jun 1813; Surgeon to Chelsea Hospital from 1821; FRS 15 February 1787, Copley Medal 1807; his inexcusable destruction of Hunter’s MSS after using them in the preparation of his own papers for the Royal Society is much to be regretted; an enthusiastic OW who for many years came down to the School on 17 November in full dress to ask for an Early Play for the anniversary of Queen Elizabeth’s accession; edited Hunter’s treatise On the Blood, Inflammation and Gunshot Wounds, 1794; author, Lectures on Comparative Anatomy, 1814-28, and other works; m. 4 Nov 1792 Jane, widow of Stephen Thompson, and dau. of Rev. James Tunstall DD; d. 31 Aug 1832. DNB.
