Educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital. At the time of his death he was Medical Officer of the Smethwick District of King's Norton Union. He died at Smethwick, where he had practised, on Friday, October 16th, 1863, in the very exercise of his profession. "He was attending a patient in his surgery, wh

Thomas Chavasse, originally of French extraction, came of a family who had practised for generations at Burford, Oxfordshire. His father, who had qualified before there was a vacancy in the family practice, started in Walsall, where Thomas Chavasse was born in 1800. He went to a Kensington School, a