John Eric Erichsen, 1st baronet (1818–96)

Danish-born surgeon. Studied medicine at University College, London. Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, 1839. Joint lecturer on anatomy and physiology, Westminster Hospital, 1844–6; joint lecturer on anatomy, 1846–8. Assistant surgeon, University College Hospital, 1848–50; surgeon, 1850–75; consulting surgeon from 1875. Professor of surgery, University College, 1850–66; Holme Professor of clinical surgery from 1866. Surgeon-extraordinary to the queen, 1877. Author of the widely read textbook, Science and art of surgery (1853). Created baronet, 1895. FRS 1876.