Catalogue of portraits and busts in the Royal College of Surgeons of England, with short biographical notices / compiled by Frederic G. Hallett.

Date:
1892
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Credit: Catalogue of portraits and busts in the Royal College of Surgeons of England, with short biographical notices / compiled by Frederic G. Hallett. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and Surgeon to University College Hospital. He became a IMember of the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons, 1840 ; Member of the Court of Examiners, 1846. He was elected a Fellow of the College on the nth December, 1843. Died, 7th December, 1847. j^ENF^Y JGlINE. BY SIR FRANCIS CHANTREY, R.A. (1781—1841.) Ordered hi/ the College, June 1827. Born in London, 1750. Studied at St. Thomas's Hospital and later was a pupil of John Hunter, and became Member of the Corporation of Surgeons, 2nd June, 1774. Lectured on Anatomy at St. Thomas's Hospital, 1781, and was appointed Surgeon, 1784, and practised in Lincoln's Inn Fields. On the 7th July, 1796, he was elected a Member of the Court of Assistants of the Corporation of Surgeons, but as the election took place at a meeting of the Court at which neither of the Wardens was present, it was found to have vitiated the Act of 1745 incorporating the Company of Surgeons, and a Committee (of which Cline was a Member) was appointed to endeavour to obtain an Act of Parliament to legalize the proceedings. Tlie Committee were unsuccessful, although in 1800 a Charter was granted creating the Koyal College of Surgeons of London. Henky Cline was one of the original Court of Assistants of the College, and was elected Member of the Court of Examiners on the loth February, 1810. He became Master in 1815 ; Hunterian Orator, 1816 and 1824 ; President, 1823. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society on the iftli January, 1807. Died, 2nd January, 1827.