Golding-Bird (other)
Golding-Bird may refer to: * Golding Bird (1814–1854), British medical doctor * Cuthbert Hilton Golding-Bird (1848–1939), British surgeon and son of Golding Bird * Cyril Golding-Bird Cyril Henry Golding-Bird (18 September 1876 – 9 April 1955) was an Anglican bishop in the early decades of the 20th century. He was born on 18 September 1876 and educated at Merchant Taylors' and Lincoln College, Oxford. Ordained in 1897 he w ...

Golding Bird
Golding Bird (9 December 1814 – 27 October 1854) was a British medical doctor and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. He became a great authority on kidney diseases and published a comprehensive paper on urinary deposits in 1844. He was also notable for his work in related sciences, especially the medical uses of electricity and electrochemistry. From 1836, he lectured at Guy's Hospital, a well-known teaching hospital in London and now part of King's College London, and published a popular textbook on science for medical students called ''Elements of Natural Philosophy''. Having developed an interest in chemistry while still a child, largely through self-study, Bird was far enough advanced to deliver lectures to his fellow pupils at school. He later applied this knowledge to medicine and did much research on the chemistry of urine and of kidney stones. In 1842, he was the first to describe oxaluria, a condition which leads to the formation of a particul ...
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Cuthbert Hilton Golding-Bird
Cuthbert Hilton Golding-Bird (1848–1939) was an English surgeon at Guy's Hospital, fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, and lecturer to medical students. He was skilled in histology, invented a dilator for use in tracheotomy, tracheotomies, and pioneered a new Gastroenterology, gastroenterological surgical procedure. Outside of medicine, Golding-Bird was known as a collector of clocks and publisher of books on local archaeology. Early life, education, and family Golding-Bird was born in Pentonville, London on 7 July 1848. He was the fourth child of Golding Bird, a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and pioneer of electrotherapy. Golding-Bird's mother, Mary, instituted the Golding Bird Gold Medal and Scholarship for sanitary science (later renamed for bacteriology). He attended Tonbridge School 1856–1862 and then King's College London. He obtained a BA at the University of London in 1867. In 1870, Golding-Bird married Florence Marion, daughter of another sur ...
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