Francis Sibson (1814–76)

Physician. Apprenticed to a surgeon in Edinburgh, 1828; studied at Guy’s and St Thomas’s Hospitals, London; resident surgeon and apothecary, Nottingham General Hospital, 1835–48. Set up a consulting practice in London in 1848; physician to Joseph Dalton Hooker and his family. Physician at St Mary’s Hospital, 1851–71. Lectured on medicine. Published on the physiology and pathology of respiration. FRS 1849.