In memoriam : John Cooper Forster.

  • Jacobson, Walter Hamilton Acland, (1847-1924)
Date:
[1887]
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Credit: In memoriam : John Cooper Forster. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    BepHntedfrom Vol XLTVofthe ' Guy's Hospital Reports.'] 3n iHemotiam. JOHN COOPEE POUSTER. John Cooper Forster was born in Mount Street, Lambeth, November 13th, 1823, both his father and grandfather having been in large general practice there. His father gave up the prac- tice and retired to Netting Hill in 1851, and died, aged seventy- five, in 1870. It is not uninteresting to note that the father was, quite up to seventy, a man of very great activity and go, ever on the move like a boy, until one Sunday he caught a chill while visiting a friend's grave at Kensal Green, where sixteen years later his son was to lie, and sank quickly like his son. Both father and son now lie together there. Mr. Forster's aome stood at the angle of meeting of the Westminster Bridge jload and the Kennington Road, and during his early life a lirge garden ran out behind, occupying a space now built over with small houses. From the existence of this garden, the irterest which he took in its well doing, in fact from his acting as head gardener to his father, sprang up that fondness for flowers, and later on for ferns, especially the rarer and more delicate kinds, which ultimately developed into that exquisite fernery opening out of the consulting room at 29, Upper Grosvenor Street, so well known to all who were much in that house. After being at King's College School, under the head- mastership of Dr. Major, Forster left, when eighteen,