Lister's colleagues
Many images survive in the King's College London Archives of staff who worked with Joseph Lister while he was professor and surgeon at King's College Hospital, Portugal Street from 1877-1893.
Photograph of the guests at a dinner in honour of Dr William Playfair, chaired by Joseph Lister at the Grand Hotel, London, 4 Jul 1898..jpg "Lister with surgeons")
Composite photograph of Joseph Lister with his House Surgeons and Dressers, 1861-1893
Photograph of Lister’s students in a King’s College Hospital Ward including Henry Stephen Sandifer, Isaac George, Arthur Henry Cheatle, Leslie H Walsh, John Joseph Waddelow, Richard Tanner Hewlett, John Henry Dempster, Thomas Boswell Beach and an unknown man in a wheelchair.
Lister’s students, nurses and patients at King’s College Hospital in the Craven ward. Includes Arthur Henry Cheatle, Richard Tanner Hewlett, Leslie H Walsh, Thomas Boswell Beach (House Physician), Henry Stephen Sandifer, John Henry Dempster, Herbert C Dent, Matthew Everard Makalua, Sister Marian and others.
Signatures of the Principal and senior staff of King’s College London and King’s College Hospital, on a card presented to Lister on his 80th birthday, 1907..jpg "Hugh Beevor")
Sir Hugh Reeve Beevor, 5th Bt. (1858-1939), MD Lond (1892), FRCP (1896). Medical education at King’s College London. Assistant Physician (1883), Physician (1899), Dean of Medical department (1896-1898), Fellow of King’s College London (1909). Honorary physician to the City of London Hospital for Diseases of the Chest and Alderman of the County of Norfolk, (913-1931).
Lt Col Richard Pratt Bond MRSC (1881), RAMC. Medical education at King’s College London. Joined the King’s College Medical Society in 1878, the year in which Joseph Lister was President. House Surgeon (1881), joined the Army after brief civilian career..jpg "Arthur Bousfield")
Arthur Bousfield (b1866) MRCS, LRCP (1895), BSc and MD Lond (1905). Entered Medical Department at King’s College London in 1889. House Physician (1896), and dresser for Joseph Lister..jpg "Lionel Cargill")
Lionel Vernon Cargill (1866-1955), FRSC (1892). Medical education at King’s College. Won Lister Clinical Surgery Prize (1889). House Surgeon to Lister (1891). Ophthalmic surgeon at King’s College Hospital (1896-1931)..jpg "Arthur Cheatle")
Arthur Henry Cheatle (1866-1929), CBE, FRCS (1892). Educated at King’s College London, awarded the Lister prize for clinical surgery. House accoucheur (1889) and House Surgeon to Joseph Lister (1890). Medical associateship of King’s College Hospital (1891). Lecturer on otology and aural surgeon. Adam Pulitzer prize-winner. During the First World War he was Hon Lt Col in the Royal Air Force for which he was awarded his CBE. President of the Listerian Society (1926-1927)..jpg "William Watson Cheyne")
Surgeon Rear Admiral, Sir William Watson Cheyne (1852-1932), KCMG (1916), CB, MB, CM Edin (1875) FRSC (1879) Hon FRSC Edin, Hon FRCP Edin, DSc Oxon (107) LLD Edin (1905), FRS (1894). Medical education at University of Edinburgh, House Surgeon to Joseph Lister at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, Lister brought him with him when he moved to King’s College London in 1877 where Cheyne was his first House Surgeon. Cheyne was Lister’s pupil, assistant and exponent of Listerian methods and they were said to make a fine team. He joined the navy during the South African war and eventually rose to the position of Surgeon Rear Admiral. The first Lister Memorial medal and prize were awarded to him in 1924, Cheyne retired from King’s and practice in 1917 and became MP for the combined Scottish universities until he retired in 1922..jpg "Jeremiah Penny")
Lt Col Jeremiah Penny (1864-1934), MRSC, LRCP (1887), DPH Camb (1891), IMS. Medical education at King’s College London. House Accoucher (1889), House Surgeon (1889-1890). Associate of King’s College London (1889). Indian Medical Service (1891-1934), reached the rank of Lt Col.jpg "William Penny")
William John Penny (1857-1904), FRCS (1885). Medical education at King’s College London. House Accoucheur (1880), House Surgeon (1880-1881). Assistant surgeon to King’s (1888). Surgeon to the Bristol General Hospital (1889)..jpg "Hugh Playfair")
Hugh James Moore Playfair (1864-1928) MD Lon (1892), FRCP (1918), FRSC (1899). Educated at King’s College London. Became a dresser for Joseph Lister and House Accoucheur (1891). Obstetric and gynaecological surgeon (1906). President of the King’s College Hospital Medical Society (1911-1912)..jpg "Robert Russell")
Robert Hamilton Russell (1860-1933), FRCS (1889), FACS (Hon) (1924), FRCAS (1928). Medical education at King’s College London. House Accoucheur under William Playfair (1883). House Surgeon under Joseph Lister (1884). Worked in Europe and Australia..jpg "Henry Sandifer")
Henry Stephen Sandifer (1866-1917) MRCS (1890), MD Lond (1893), BS (1892), FRCS (1892). Medical education at King’s College, a gifted student who won many awards and scholarships. House Physician and House Surgeon (1891). Captain of the King’s College Hospital Rugby Fifteen. Medical Officer to Ladies’ Home, Westbourne Park..jpg "John Stewart")
John Stewart (d.1933) CBE, MB, CM Edin (1877), LLD Edin (1913), Hon FRCS Edin. Medical education at the University of Edinburgh where he worked under Joseph Lister. Lister brought him to King’s College London when he moved in 1877, where Stewart was Senior Assistant or Clerk. Later he was in practice in Halifax, Nova Scotia where he used and taught Listerian methods. He was founder of the Canadian Listerian Oration, 1924..jpg "St Clair Thompson")
Sir St Clair Thompson (1853-1943) Professor of Laryngology, MD London (1888), FRCS (1893), FRCP (1903), LLD Winnipeg (1930), Knight Bachelor (1912), Commander with Swords of the Order of the Leopold (1915), Commandeur de la Legion d’Honneur (1932), Medaille de la Reconnaissance Francaise. House Physician in King’s College, (1883), House Surgeon to Joseph Lister (1883). Professor of Laryngology in King’s College Hospital (1901), president of Royal Society of Medicine (1924-1926), Fellow of King’s College London (1927)..jpg "Charles Wallace")
Charles Edward Wallis (1869-1927), MRSC (1894), LDS (1897). Medical education at King’s College London. Assistant Dental Surgeon at King’s (1899-1911). Dental Surgeon, (1911-1927) and Lecturer of Dental Surgery (1923-1927)..jpg "Howard Percy Ward")
Howard Percy Ward (d.1933) MB Lond (1894), MRCS (1887). Medical education at King’s College, a distinguished student during Listerian period. House Physician (1888), House Surgeon (1889). Became a Physician at the Royal South Hants Hospital.