Victor Horsley

Sir Victor Alexander Haden Horsley was a British scientist and professor, born in Kensington, London, on 14 April 1857, the son of John Callcott Horsley. He was educated at Cranbrook School in Kent and studied medicine at University College London and in Berlin in 1881, in which year he started his career as a house surgeon and registrar at University College Hospital. From 1884 to 1890 he was Professor-Superintendent of the Brown Institute. In 1886 he was appointed Assistant Professor of Surgery at the National Hospital for Paralysis and Epilepsy, and he was a Professor of Pathology from 1887 to 1896 and Professor of Clinical Surgery from 1899 to 1902 at University College London. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in June 1886 and was awarded the Cameron Prize for Therapeutics of the University of Edinburgh in 1893. He was a supporter of womens suffrage and an opponent of tobacco and alcohol.