Edmund Owen
Edmund Blackett Owen, FRCS was an English surgeon.
Biography
He was the third son of a practicing doctor of Finchingfield, Essex and educated in nearby Bishops Stortford.After studying medicine at St Mary's Hospital, London, Owen was appointed Resident Medical Officer and Demonstrator of Anatomy at St Mary's in 1868 and Lecturer of Anatomy in 1876. He was made M.R.C.S. in 1868 and F.R.C.S. in 1876. He also studied medicine in Paris and was made Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur. For many years he was a surgeon at both St Mary's Hospital and the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street.
He was elected President of the [The The Harveian Society of London|Harveian Society of London|Harveian Society] in 1887 and President of the Medical Society of London in 1898.
Honours
- 1887 – President of the Harveian Society
- 1898 – President of the Medical Society of London
- 7 March 1900 – Knight of Grace of the Order of St John of Jerusulem
- 1903 – Cross of the Legion of Honor
- 1906 – Bradshaw Lecture to Royal College of Surgeons
- 1911 – Hunterian Oration to Royal College of Surgeons