William Allingham (1829–1908)

Surgeon and architect. Trained and practised as an architect, but abandoned architecture for medicine in 1851. Studied at St Thomas’s Hospital, London, qualifying in 1855. Surgeon in the Crimean War, after which he held posts at St Thomas’s. FRCS 1857. Consultant in London from 1863, specialising in diseases of the rectum; published Diseases of the rectum (1871).