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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.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.