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Asset Name:
E004662 - Tanner, Herbert (1858 - 1939)
Title:
Tanner, Herbert (1858 - 1939)
Author:
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Identifier:
RCS: E004662
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2013-11-20
Description:
Obituary for Tanner, Herbert (1858 - 1939), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Tanner, Herbert
Date of Birth:
20 July 1858
Place of Birth:
Bicester, Oxfordshire
Date of Death:
12 August 1939
Place of Death:
Prince's Risborough, Buckinghamshire
Occupation:
Titles/Qualifications:
MRCS 28 April 1885

FRCS 12 December 1895

LRCP 1885
Details:
Born 20 July 1858 at Wendlebury, Bicester, Oxfordshire, the youngest of the six children, five sons and a daughter, of John Tanner, farmer, and Ann Foster, his wife. He was educated at Buckingham Grammar School and St Mary's Hospital. He was scholar in ophthalmology, third session scholar, prosector in anatomy, and ophthalmic assistant at St Mary's Hospital. He settled as a general practitioner at 152 Westbourne Grove, W11, soon after he qualified and at a time when William Whiteley, the draper, was attracting many persons to the neighbourhood. He married Emily Sophia Hickman on 23 December 1885, who survived him. Their only child Harold Tanner, MB London 1910 and temporary captain, RAMC, 1 June 1916, was drowned accidentally at Boulogne in 1916. Herbert Tanner retired in 1926 to Highlands, Lacey Green, Prince's Risborough, Bucks, and died there on 12 August 1939. He invented a bimanual ophthalmoscope.
Sources:
Information given by Mrs Emily Tanner
Rights:
Copyright (c) The Royal College of Surgeons of England
Collection:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Format:
Obituary
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Asset Path:
Root/Lives of the Fellows/E004000-E004999/E004600-E004699
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Unknown