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Darwin Correspondence Project

William Lawrence

1783–1867

Surgeon and anatomist. Professor of anatomy, Royal College of Surgeons, 1816–19. Surgeon to St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London, 1824–65; lecturer on surgery, 1829–62. FRS 1813.

Sources

DNB

Plarr 1930.

Bibliography

DNB: Dictionary of national biography. Edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee. 63 vols. and 2 supplements (6 vols.). London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1912. Dictionary of national biography 1912–90. Edited by H. W. C. Davis et al. 9 vols. London: Oxford University Press. 1927–96.

Plarr, Victor Gustave. 1930. Plarr’s lives of the fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Revised by Sir D’Arcy Power. 2 vols. London: Simpkin Marshall.

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