Guide to the Address of Sir Everard Home, 1st Baronet Home (as filmed by the AJCP), 1822-1825

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Summary

Collection number:

M604

Creator:

Home, Everard, Sir

Extent:

1 item

Language:

English

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M Series: Journal of Capt. James Cook, 18 February-23 September 1770, British Library Add. MS 27885 (AJCP ref: http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1234)

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Background

Content Summary:

The Hunterian Oration in Honour of Surgery … Delivered in the Theatre of the Royal College of Surgeons in London. February 14, 1822 by Sir Everard Home (36 p.), London (1822). The subject of the oration was Sir Joseph Banks. A page of typescript notes 'collected in conversation with Sir Everard Home' 10 October 1825 identifies certain events and people referred to in the oration.

Biographical / Historical:

Surgeon and lecturer in anatomy. Surgeon at St George's Hospital 1793-1827 and Chelsea Hospital 1821-1832. First President of Royal College of Surgeons 1821 and Keeper of Hunterian Collection.

Sir Everard Home (1756-1832), 1st Baronet, was born at Hull, Yorkshire, the son of a former army surgeon. After attending Westminster School, he became a pupil of his brother-in-law, the eminent surgeon John Hunter, at St George's Hospital, London. He qualified as a surgeon in 1778, was a staff surgeon in the Army for a few years, and then re-joined Hunter as his assistant in teaching, research and clinical practice. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1787. Following Hunter's death in 1793, Home became surgeon at St George's Hospital, a position that he held until 1827.

In 1799 the Government purchased Hunter's collection of anatomical and pathological specimens and it was presented to the College of Surgeons. When the Hunterian Museum opened in Lincoln's Inn Fields 1806, Home was appointed chief curator. He gave the first Hunterian Oration in 1814 and again in 1822. Many of Home's books and papers, generally published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, were based heavily on Hunter's unpublished writings.

Home was appointed Professor of Anatomy and Surgery at the Royal College of Surgeons in 1814 and he was president of the College in 1821-1822. He became surgeon to the Royal Chelsea Hospital in 1821. He was a friend of the Prince Regent, who made him a baronet in 1813.

Home's son, Sir James Everard Home (1793-1853) joined the Royal Navy in 1810. He became a captain in 1837. In 1850 he was given command of HMS Calliope, thereby becoming the senior officer on the Australian Station. He died following an accident and was buried in Sydney.

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