Horace Stansfield Collier (15 July 1864 – 26 February 1930) was a British surgeon at

St Mary's Hospital, London St Mary's Hospital is an NHS hospital in Paddington, in the City of Westminster, London, founded in 1845. Since the UK's first academic health science centre was created in 2008, it has been operated by Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, wh ...

, and the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children (1897–1911). His brother was the physician and neurologist

James Stansfield Collier James Stansfield Collier (1870 – 9 February 1935) was an English physician and neurologist. His brother was the surgeon Horace Stansfield Collier. Early life Collier was born in 1870, the second son of Alfred Henry Collier and his wife Sa ...

Early life

Collier was born in Littleborough, Lancashire, on 15 July 1864, the elder son of Alfred Henry Collier and his wife Sarah Collier (née Stansfield). Sarah was a descendant of the Stansfield family of

Stansfield Stansfield is a village and civil parish in the West Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England. Located seven miles south-west of Bury St Edmunds, in 2011 its population was 221. The village has an Anglican church dedicated to All Saints. ...

, Yorkshire. His younger brother was

(1870–1935).

Career

Collier was a student at St Mary’s Hospital, London, before qualifying with a Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians (LRCP) and being elected as a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons (MRCP) in 1888. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1890. He became a Demonstrator in Anatomy (1894–98), Surgical Tutor (1897–1902) then Surgeon and Lecturer on Surgery (1906–11) and later at St Mary’s Hospital, London. Collier was also Surgeon at the

Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children Great Ormond Street Hospital (informally GOSH or Great Ormond Street, formerly the Hospital for Sick Children) is a children's hospital located in the Bloomsbury area of the London Borough of Camden, and a part of Great Ormond Street Hospita ...

from 1897 to 1911 undertaking a huge workload. He also served as an Examiner in Surgery for the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries, and Surgeon at the Hostel of St Luke, Lord Mayor Treloar’s Home, and the College for Crippled Children, Alton. He retired from Hospital surgery due to ill health in 1911 but continued as a Lieutenant and Clinical Teacher in Surgery with the

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and was a Captain-Surgeon at the Territorial General Hospital, London. Collier died at Teynham, Kent, on 26 February 1930.

References

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