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E002821 - Norton, Arthur Trehern (1841 - 1912)
Title:
Norton, Arthur Trehern (1841 - 1912)
Author:
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Identifier:
RCS: E002821
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2012-09-05
Description:
Obituary for Norton, Arthur Trehern (1841 - 1912), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Norton, Arthur Trehern
Date of Birth:
17 August 1841
Date of Death:
4 August 1912
Occupation:
Titles/Qualifications:
CB 1889

MRCS November 18th 1862

FRCS June 13th 1867

M and LSA 1862
Details:
Born on August 17th, 1841, the second son of Robert Norton, MD (qv), of Bayswater. He was educated at Totteridge Park School and entered St Mary's Hospital Medical School as a student in 1858. He was a successful worker, most of the class examination prizes for which he competed being awarded to him. He secured the Scholarship in Anatomy in 1861, at a time when the holder of this scholarship - which was discontinued in 1884 - became Assistant Demonstrator of Anatomy. Shortly afterwards he was appointed Demonstrator of Anatomy, although he had not yet qualified. His colleague was, for a short period, George G Gascoyen (qv). In 1866 Norton was elected Surgeon to Out-patients. From 1866-1876 he was Lecturer in Anatomy, being till 1871 joint-lecturer with Gascoyen. In 1878 Norton succeeded H Spencer Smith (qv) as Surgeon to In-patients, and in 1881 followed James R Lane (qv) as Senior Surgeon. He was Lecturer in Surgery from 1876-1888, his colleagues in this post being James E Lane (qv) from 1876-1881 and Herbert Page (qv) from 1882-1888. In 1888 the Clinical Lectureships were revived and Norton became Lecturer on Clinical Surgery, Sir William Broadbent being Lecturer on Clinical Medicine. Norton, though his term of office did not expire till March, 1898, severed his connection with the staff of St Mary's at the close of 1896, and was elected Consulting Surgeon on January 22nd, 1897. In 1870 he had been placed in charge of the newly established Department for Diseases of the Throat at St Mary's, and in the same year he served with the English Ambulance in France during the Franco-Prussian War, receiving the French Gold Medal in recognition of organizing work in the Ambulance Department; together with Sir John Furley and Henry Sewill the dental surgeon, he was in charge of an ambulance at Brieu. He took an active part in the formation of the Volunteer Medical Staff Corps, which he joined as Surgeon Major in 1885, being transferred from the Civil Service Rifles. In 1888 he became Commandant of the London Companies, and in 1889 was promoted to the rank of Surgeon Lieutenant-Colonel. In recognition of his services he was made a CB in 1889, and received the Volunteer Officers' Decoration on its institution as well as the Jubilee Medal. He was also an Hon Associate of the Order of St John of Jerusalem. In view of his military experiences he was appointed a member of the War Office Committee for the development of the Volunteer Medical Service. He ardently supported the movement for admitting women to medical degrees and took an active share in founding the London School of Medicine for Women. He was an Examiner in Surgery at the University of Durham and the Society of Apothecaries. He was appointed Examiner to the latter in 1892 and held the post for six years; in 1901 he became a member of the Court of Assistants, was Warden in 1908-1910, Master in 1910-1911, and represented the Society on the General Medical Council from 1910-1912. After his retirement from London and from practice he lived at Leyfields Wood, Ashampstead, Berks. Norton died at a nursing home at Reading after an operation for appendicitis on Sunday, August 4th, 1912. In 1898 he married Lucy Maude, eldest daughter of E Meredith Chase, of Newhouse Park, Herts. A portrait of him in uniform accompanies his biography in *St Mary's Hospital Gazette*, 1897, Personally Trehern Norton was courtesy itself, and in his profession he had shown great industry and capacity, giving also ungrudgingly personal help to both colleagues and students at St Mary's. He was for some years editor in London of the *Medical Press and Circular*, and was one of its proprietors at the time of his death. Publications:- *Osteology: a Concise Description of the Human Skeleton*, 8vo, atlas of 20 plates, London, 1866; 2nd ed. *Affections of the Throat and Larynx. The Classification, Description and Statistics of 150 Consecutive Cases occurring in the Throat Department of St Mary's Hospital*, 8vo, London, 1871; 2nd ed, 1875. *The Examiner in Anatomy: a Course of Instruction in the Method of Answering Anatomical Questions*, 12mo, London, 1877. *Text-book of Operative Surgery and Surgical Anatomy, based on the Original Work of Professors Claude Bernard and Ch Huette*, 2nd ed, 8vo, 88 plates, London, 1886. *Clinical Lectures on Recent Surgery*, 12mo, London, 1894. "On Accommodation of Vision and Anatomy of the Ciliary Body." - *Proc Roy Soc*, xxi, 423. "The Anatomy of the Eye" in Haynes Walton's *Diseases of the Eye*, 3rd ed, 1875. Norton was one of the first contributors to *St Mary's Hosp Gaz* (1875, i, 5), with an article on "Gunshot Wounds in Civil Practice", which also referred to his experiences in the war of 1870.
Sources:
*Med Press and Circ*, 1912, ii, 144

*Lancet* 1912, ii, 291

*Brit Med Jour* 1912, ii, 342
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Copyright (c) The Royal College of Surgeons of England
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Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
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Obituary
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Root/Lives of the Fellows/E002000-E002999/E002800-E002899
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