Norman Gerald Horner (1882–1954) was a physician, surgeon, and medical editor.

Biography

After education at

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, N. Gerald Horner matriculated in October 1899 at

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, graduating there B.A. in 1902, M.B. and B.Chir. in 1910, M.A. in 1919, and M.D in 1922. At

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, he qualified M.R.C.S. and L.R.C.P. in 1906. After qualification, he was, for a brief time, a house surgeon at the Westminster Hospital and then was appointed a house physician to St Bartholomew's Hospital. He was from 1911 to 1915 an assistant editor at ''

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'' under the editorship of Sir Samuel Squire Sprigge. Horner served from 1914 to 1919 as a captain in the

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and during WW I was in France for two years. On the editorial staff of the

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, he was from 1917 to 1928 an assistant editor (under Sir Dawson Williams) and from 1928 to 1946 editor-in-chief, as successor to Williams, who died in 1928. Horner retired in 1946 at age sixty-five and was succeeded as editor-in-chief by Hugh Clegg, CBE, FRCP. Horner was elected FRCP in 1939 and FRCS in 1942.

Family

N. Gerald Horner's father, Arthur Claypon Horner, was the surgeon and naturalist on the Northwest Passage expedition of the ''Pandora'' in 1875. In 1911 in

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, London, N. Gerald Horner married Grace Malleson Fearon (1891–1950). They had one son.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Horner, Norman Gerald 1882 births 1954 deaths 20th-century British medical doctors Medical journal editors People from Tonbridge People educated at Tonbridge School Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge Alumni of the Medical College of St Bartholomew's Hospital Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons