William Henry Stone (1830–91)

Surgeon and musician. BA, Oxford, 1852. FRCS 1856. Studied at St Thomas’s Hospital, London, and in Paris. Medical registrar, St Thomas’s. Inspector to the Board of Health and superintendent of vaccination, Trinidad, until 1861. Assistant physician, St Thomas’s, and lecturer in materia medica and physics at the School, 1870; full physician from a year or two later until his retirement in 1890. Member of the amateur musical society the Wandering Minstrels; played in concerts and improved the double bassoon; invented a bassoon that played lower notes than had hitherto been played in orchestras. Lectured and wrote on acoustics.