Samuel Howard (surgeon)

Samuel Howard (1731 – 21 December 1811) was an English surgeon and Fellow of the Royal Society.

Life

Howard qualified as surgeon, with diploma from Surgeons' Hall, after a year of training at St George's Hospital. He was in practice in Covent Garden, and was surgeon to the London Lock Hospital. He became house surgeon to the Middlesex Hospital in 1758.^[1]

Howard was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1771.^[2] In 1797 he became surgeon to the Prince of Wales, on the death of Richard Grindall.^[3]

Howard died in Yattendon, Berkshire, on 21 December 1811 at the age of 80.^[4]

References

1. Sir Erasmus Wilson (1845). The History of the Middlesex Hospital During the First Century of Its Existence. Churchill. p. 222.
2. Thomas Thomson (19 May 2011). History of the Royal Society: From Its Institution to the End of the Eighteenth Century. Cambridge University Press. p. liv. ISBN 978-1-108-02815-8.
3. David Hay (2001). A flickering lamp: a history of Sydenham Medical Club (1775–2000). E. D. A. Hay. p. 45. ISBN 978-1-85065-491-9.
4. "DIED". The Times. 30 December 1811. Retrieved 6 September 2025.