Hubert E.J. Biss
Hubert Elwyn Jones Biss (28 September 1871 – 20 September 1909) was a British physician and medical writer. He attended William Ewart Gladstone, William Gladstone at his deathbed in 1898 and wrote the text for the long-running Baillière's atlases of the male and female body. Early life and family Hubert Biss was born in New Zealand on 28 September 1871, the son of Cecil Yates Biss MD FRCP, and his wife Janet. His grandfather was John Jones, a landowner in Dunedin, New Zealand. He was schooled at Dulwich College and graduated from the University of Cambridge BA in 1892, subsequently acquiring his MA, MB, BC, and his MD in 1901. His brother Harold was also at Cambridge and served as a major in the Royal Irish Regiment during the First World War. (see also: ) He married Janie Williamson Biss. Career Biss's early medical career was at the Middlesex Hospital and the Brompton Consumptive Hospital, at both of which his father had also worked. He also worked at the Grove and Park f ...
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