Sir William Job Collins

Born: 1859 | Died: 1946 | Grave: J 020 | Category: Medicine

KCVO, MD, MS, FRCS. Eye surgeon. Sometime Chairman of the LCC and Vice Chancellor of London University. He was Liberal MP for St Pancras West (1906-10), and for Derby (1917-18),. He was consulting surgeon to two eye hospitals, President of many societies (eg Huguenot Society),, Chairman of many committees (eg Hop Industry), and wrote many…

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Otto May

Born: 1878 | Died: 1946 | Grave: J 063 | Category: Medicine

Chairman of British Social Hygiene Council, Principal Medical Officer of Prudential Assurance Co.

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Sarah Knight

Born: n/a | Died: 2008 | Grave: K 014A | Category: Medicine

Nurse; Churchwarden at Hampstead Parish Church

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Maj-Gen Gerald Godfrey Giffard

Born: 1868 | Died: 1926 | Grave: G 062 | Category: Medicine

KCIE, CSI, KHS, IMS. Surgeon in India, mainly in Madras; also Professor of Midwifery and other Government appointments. Born Guernsey.

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Charles Francis James Lord

Born: 1803 | Died: 1891 | Grave: D 076 | Category: Medicine

Surgeon and first Medical Officer of Health for Hampstead from 1856. He carried out radical reforms in his roles as Sanitary Inspector, Public Vaccinator and Medical superintendent of the Workhouse in New End. He lived latterly at Elm Cottage, Rosslyn Hill. His grave includes 2 children and 2 grandchildren, who died in their infancy.

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Henry Cooper

Born: 1877 | Died: 1947 | Grave: Col E 5 | Category: Medicine

DSO. Surgeon RN (from 1904),, Hon Surgeon to King George V (1930-32),, Registrar to Society of Apothecaries of London (1932-39),; Group Captain RAF Medical Service in World War II. Lived at 6 Holly Place.

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Joseph Jordan

Born: 1787 | Died: 1873 | Grave: A 093 | Category: Medicine | Tags: Doctor, Grave robbing, History of medicine

  FRCS. Surgeon from Manchester. He was the Founder of the Provincial School of Anatomy, a consulting surgeon to the Manchester Royal Informary and to the Lock Hospital, of which he was one of the Founders. As most of his career as an anatomist was before the Anatomy Act (1832), he admitted involvement in “body snatching”…

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Dr Henry Cooper Rose

Born: 1831 | Died: 1914 | Grave: A 012 | Category: Medicine

Surgeon Major of the Middle Temple; barrister at Law, who practised as a physician in Hampstead for more than 40 years.

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