Edward James Shearman


Dr Edward James Shearman FRCP FRCS FRSE was a 19th-century British surgeon and author. He founded Rotherham Hospital in 1872. In authorship he often appears as E. J. Shearman.

Life

He was born in 1798 in Wington in Somerset.
He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh graduating with an MB ChB around 1818. He then did practical experience in St George's Hospital in London before postgraduate studies in Jena in south-east Germany where he received his doctorate. His earlier career is unclear but from 1841 he was a surgeon the Rotherham Dispensary and a General practitioner in that town.
In 1870 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, his proposer being Arthur Abney Walker.
In 1872, whilst on the Rotherham Board of Health, he founded Rotherham Hospital and ran the hospital until his death.
He died at Moorgsate in Rotherham on 2 October 1878 aged 80.

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