Timothy Holmes

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(9 May 1825 in

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– 8 September 1907) was an English surgeon, known as the editor of several editions of ''

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''.

Life

Holmes was educated at Merchant Taylors' School and then at

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with B.A. in 1847 and M.A. in 1850. He studied medicine at St George's Hospital. In 1853 he was made a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons without previously having acquired the usual diploma of M.R.C.S. At

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he became house surgeon, surgical registrar, and in 1867 full surgeon. Also, at the Hospital for Sick Children in Great Ormond Street, Holmes was assistant surgeon from 1859 and then full surgeon from 1861 to 1868. He was also appointed Chief Surgeon of the

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in 1865. In 1889 Holmes was the chairman of the Building Committee of the

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; the committee was in charge of moving the Society from its old quarters in

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to a house in Hanover Square. In 1890 he was elected the Society's president.

Works

Holmes wrote ''A Treatise on the Surgical Treatment of the Diseases of Infancy and Childhood'' (1868) and was the editor of the third through ninth editions of ''Gray's Anatomy'', preceded in the editorship by

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and succeeded by T. Pickering Pick. Holmes was the co-editor of the first 8 volumes of the journal '' St George's Hospital Reports''. With John S. Bristowe, Holmes published in 1863 a report, commissioned by the

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, on the state of hospitals and their administration in the U.K. He was the editor of 4 editions o
''A Treatise on Surgery: Its Principles and Practice''
(1st edition, 1875; 2nd, 1878; 3rd, 1882; 4th, 1886). He wrote a biography of Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie published in 1898. He was a friend of the pathologist and syphilologist Henry Lee, writing his obituary in

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in 1898. Holmes also created the first English translation of ''Lay Down Your Arms!'' (''

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)'' by

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in 1892. The second edition of his translation was published in 1908.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Holmes, Timothy 1825 births 1907 deaths British surgeons British book editors British medical writers Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons Alumni of Pembroke College, Cambridge People educated at Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood Physicians of Great Ormond Street Hospital Chief Surgeons of the Metropolitan Police