Resource Name:
Resource Type:
External Resource
Asset Name:
E001234 - Colthurst, John ( - 1895)
Title:
Colthurst, John ( - 1895)
Author:
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Identifier:
RCS: E001234
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2011-06-07
Subject:
Description:
Obituary for Colthurst, John ( - 1895), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Colthurst, John
Date of Death:
18 October 1895
Place of Death:
Chew Magna, Somerset, UK
Occupation:
Titles/Qualifications:
MRCS Nov 2nd 1832
FRCS (by election) August 26th 1844
LSA 1831
Details:
Was one of the first pupils of Henry Clark (qv) at Bristol in his newly opened 'Theatre of Anatomy' in 1826, when there were only seven or eight in the class. He went afterwards to St Bartholomew's Hospital, and, returning to Bristol, lectured for many years on surgery and descriptive anatomy at what had become the Bristol Medical School, formed by the amalgamation of Shute's with Clark's 'Theatre of Anatomy'. Colthurst practised at 11 The Mall, Clifton, and was Surgeon and later Consulting Surgeon to the Clifton Dispensary. He died at Chew Magna on October 18th, 1895, his death being reported by Miss Colthurst.
Sources:
Munro Smith's *A History of the Bristol Royal Infirmary*, Bristol, 1917, 379
Rights:
Copyright (c) The Royal College of Surgeons of England
Collection:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Format:
Obituary
Format:
Asset
Asset Path:
Root/Lives of the Fellows/E001000-E001999/E001200-E001299
Media Type:
Unknown
