1-273-568 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

William Bowman, Fellow of the Royal Society, 1880. In 1839 he became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. The following year he was appointed junior demonstrator of anatomy and curator of the museum at King's College. He became full surgeon to the hospital in 1856. In 1846 he had become assistant surgeon to the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital, Moorfields; and became full surgeon in 1851. Bowman became the leading opthalmic surgeon in London. He also took an interest in nurse training and was instrumental in setting up St John's House, and the Nightingale Fund Council. From Men of Mark: a gallery of contemporary portraits of men distinguished in the Senate, the Church, in science, literature and art, the army, navy, law, medicine, etc. Photographed from life by Lock and Whitfield, with brief biographical notices by Thompson Cooper. (Conducted by G. C. Whitfield.) (London, 1876-1883).