# List of honorary medical staff at King Edward VII's Hospital for Officers

The King Edward VII's Hospital for Officers (KEVII) was established first as Sister Agnes' hospital in 1899 by Sister Agnes, and was then formally opened as King Edward VII's Hospital for Officers in 1904 by King Edward VII, who selected and appointed the first honorary medical staff. In 1914, Sister Agnes compiled a list of 23 honorary physicians and surgeons just a few days before the First World War. Although open to all London consultants, at that time, the status of the medical staff on the list was considered such that patients rarely requested the service from any other London physician or surgeon. The list was abandoned in 1919 and reinstated when the new hospital opened in Beaumont Street in 1948.
Closely associated with the Royal Family, the hospital was noted around the time of its centenary, to have in its list of physicians and surgeons around 100 staff, which required the inclusion of the Royal Medical Household. In 2018 there were 300 physicians and surgeons at the hospital working under a "practising privileges agreement", granted after the consultant selection and review committee (CSRC) approve and invite a consultant.

## 1904 list

The King Edward VII's Hospital was established first as Sister Agnes' hospital in 1899 by Sister Agnes, and then formally opened as King Edward VII's Hospital for Officers in 1904 by King Edward VII. The hospital's honorary medical staff were first selected and appointed by the King. On 6 July 1904 Buckingham palace released a list of the honorary medical staff, headed by Sir Frederick Treves, who is credited with saving the King's life by performing an operation on his appendix, and Sir Thomas Smith who was present at that operation. Both were Serjeant Surgeons to the King.
| Name | birth/death | Comments |
| Herbert William Allingham | 1862 – 1904 | In 1903 whilst operating he contracted syphilis. The following year, his wife died and in the same year he was appointed to KEVII. Depressed, he travelled to Egypt and died in Marseilles on 4 November 1904, from an overdose of morphine at the age of 42. |
| Sir Thomas Barlow, 1st Baronet | 1845 – 1945 | Barlow's disease (infantile scurvy) is named for him. |
| Sir William H. Bennett | 1852 – 1931 | Surgeon at St George's Hospital. Treated sick and wounded soldiers on their return from the Boer war. |
| Tom Bird | ?–1932 | Consulting Anæsthetist, Guy's Hospital and East London Hospital for Children. |
| Sir Anthony Bowlby | 1855 – 1929 | Appointed Surgeon to the Household of King Edward VII in 1904. |
| Sir William Broadbent | 1835 – 1907 | Broadbent was physician-extraordinary to Queen Victoria and physician-in-ordinary to King Edward VII and the Prince of Wales. |
| Arthur H. Cheatle | 1866 – 1929 | House surgeon to Joseph Lister before specialising in aural surgery. |
| Sir G. Lenthal Cheatle | 1865 – 1951 | Co-authored Tumours of the breast (1931). |
| Sir Anderson Critchett | 1845 – 1925 | Eye surgeon to King Edward VII. |
| Sir Alexander Crombie | 1845 – 1906 | Scottish surgeon who joined the Indian Medical Service and became resident surgeon at the Calcutta Medical College, where he became professor of materia medica. In 1877, he served the civil surgeoncy of Dacca, and was later joint civil surgeon of Simla. He later became joint member of the Medical Board at the India Office. |
| David Ferrier | 1843 – 1928 | Scottish neurologist and psychologist. |
| Sir Peter Freyer | 1851 – 1921 | Irish surgeon who performed genitourinary surgery, best known at first as an Indian Medical Service (IMS) officer, for making popular the procedure for crushing bladder stones to allow them to be evacuated through the natural passages. Following retirement from the IMS after 20 years of service in India, he returned to England and popularized a procedure for benign large prostates. |
| Sir Alfred Downing Fripp | 1865 – 1930 | In 1901 he was elected a Knight of Grace of the Order of St John of Jerusalem, created CB for his services in the Boer War, and made CVO. He was knighted in 1903, and was appointed KCVO in 1906. He was surgeon-in-ordinary to the Prince of Wales, and to the next Prince of Wales, afterwards King George V. |
| Rickman Godlee | 1849 – 1925 | Surgeon |
| James Frederick Goodhart | 1845–1916 | |
| Frederick William Hewitt | 1857 – 1916 | The King's anaesthetist. |
| Victor A. H. Horsley | 1857 – 1916 | Known for the Horsley–Clarke apparatus (developed together with Robert H. Clarke in 1908). |
| George Henry Makins | 1853 – 1933 | Surgeon |
| John Lockhart-Mummery | 1875 – 1957 | Surgeon at St Mark's Hospital, London, who devised a classification of rectal cancer and described familial polyposis which led to the formation of the polyposis registry. He authored Diseases of the Rectum and Colon and their Surgical Treatment (1923) and The Origin of Cancer (1934). His work on colorectal surgery earned him the nickname "King Rectum". |
| Frederick W. Pavy | 1829 – 1911 | |
| Richard D. Powell | | |
| William Aldren Turner | 1864–1945 | |
| Henry Roe Walker | | M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P |
| Sir William Hale-White | 1857 – 1949 | Physician at Guy’s Hospital, colonel in the RAMC during the First World War, and knighted in 1919. |

## 1905 list

Additions were made in 1905.
| Name | birth/death |
| Sir Watson Cheyne | 1852 – 1932 |
| Sir Alfred Pearce Gould | 1852 – 1922 |
| Sir Bruce Porter | 1869 – 1948 |

## 1906 list

Additions were made in 1906.
| Name | birth/death |
| John Anderson | |
| Sir Charles A. Balance | 1856 – 1936 |
| Sir Malcolm Morris | 1849 – 1924 |
| T. H. Openshaw | 1856 – 1929 |
| Sir Charters J. Seymonds | |
| Herbert Tiley | |
| Cuthebert S. Wallace | 1867 – 1944 |

## 1914 list

A few days before the onset of the First World War, during which the hospital was located at 9 Grosvenor Gardens, Sister Agnes compiled a list of 23 honorary physicians and surgeons. Although patients could "if desired be treated by any member of the surgical staff of a London hospital", at that time, the status of the medical staff was considered such that patients rarely requested the service from any other London consultant. Throughout the war, all worked at the hospital without a fee. According to historian Richard Hough "to work for the sovereign and Sister Agnes was sufficient, indeed a privilege". Arthur H. Cheatle, G. Lenthal Cheatle, John Lockhart-Mummery and Sir William Hale-White, from the 1904 list remained on the 1914 list.
| Name | birth/death | Comments |
| Sir Bertrand Dawson | 1864 – 1945 | Physician in ordinary to four successive monarchs. One time president of the Royal College of Physicians. |
| Sir William Bennett | 1852 – 1931 | Treated wounded soldiers returning from the Boer War, for which he was publicly thanked by Lord Roberts. During the First World War he served the British Red Cross and the Order of St John. |
| Sir William Arbuthnot Lane | 1856 – 1943 | Surgeon at Guy's Hospital and examiner at the Royal College of Surgeons. During the First World War, he served in the Aldershot command and was gazetted colonel, AMS, in 1917. He organized the Queen's Hospital at Sidcup for the treatment of facial injuries and worked with Sir Harold Gillies and Henry Tonks. |
| Herbert J. Paterson | 1867 – 1940 | Honorary surgeon in charge of Queen Alexandra's Hospital for Officers, before becoming surgeon to King Edward VII Hospital for Officers. |
| James Sherren | 1872 – 1945 | He followed Sir Frederick Treves before becoming a surgeon of the abdomen, working with Joseph Blomfield. Named for the Sherren's triangle. |
| Sir T. Crisp English | 1878 – 1949 | Surgeon to St George's Hospital, specialised in head injuries. |
| Charles Arthur Morris | 1860 – 1942 | Friend of Sister Agnes, he served the hospital during the Boer War and the First World War. A surgeon, he had a general practice in London. |
| Harold Spitta | 1877 – 1954 | Bacteriologist to Royal medical household. |
| Joseph Blomfield | 1870 – 1948 | Anaesthetist who worked closely with James Sherren. |
| E. W. Clapham | | Anaesthetist |
| Richard R. Cruise | 1877 – 1946 | Ophthalmic surgeon at the Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital who was appointed to the King Edward VII's Hospital in 1914. Invented chain curtain for helmets to reduce eye-injuries. |
| W. H. Clayton-Greene | 1874 – 1926 | Dean of St Mary's Medical School from 1907 to 1910, full Surgeon and Lecturer on Surgery in 1911, Consulting Surgeon in 1924, and Surgeon to the French Hospital, to the Hampstead General Hospital, and to the Radium Institute. He was an examiner in anatomy. |
| Sir Francis Mark Farmer | 1866 – 1922 | Dental surgeon |
| Farquhar Buzzard | 1871 – 1945 | Contributed to neurology as did his father Thomas Buzzard. |
| Thomas Walker | | |
| Llewelyn Powell | Died 1934 | Anaesthetist at the National Hospital for Paralysis and Epilepsy. |
| Arnold Lawson | 1867 – 1947 | Broderip scholar and later an Ophthalmologist. |
| John Thomas-Walker | | |

## 1948 at Beaumont Street

In 1919, when the hospital returned to 17 Grosvenor Crescent, having been at Grosvenor Gardens throughout the war, the consultant list was abandoned. However, once located at the purpose-developed Beaumont Street in 1948, the King's Fund advised that one was necessary, and with modest charges, the consultants would acquire the prestige of being on the list. 27 physicians and surgeons were subsequently invited by the medical members of the hospital's council.
| Name | birth/death | Comments |
| Sir Clement Price-Thomas | 1893 – 1973 | Welsh thoracic surgeon known for his 1951 operation on King George VI. |
| Sir Henry Osmond-Clarke | 1905 – 1986 | Appointed consultant orthopaedic surgeon to the London Hospital in 1946, before being appointed to King Edward VII Hospital for Officers. |
| Cecil Fleming | | |
| Ronald Furlong | 1909 – 2002 | |
| Sir Cecil Wakeley | 1892 – 1979 | President of the Royal College of Surgeons from 1949 to 1954. |
| Sir Brian Warren | 1914 – 1996 | Physician to Sir Edward Heath. |

## 1950s -1960s

In 1954 there were 28 physicians and surgeons on the list of medical staff. From January 1965, the use of the hospital was restricted to those consultants from the recognised list. In 1969, upon the retirement of Matron Alice Saxby, eight new appointments were made.
| Name | birth/death | Comments |
| Sir Archibald McIndoe | 1900 – 1960 | Joined King Edward VII's staff in 1966. |
| Sir Anthony Michael Dawson | 1928 – 1997 | Physician at St Bartholomew’s Hospital who became physician to the Queen from 1982. |
| Hugh Evelyn Lockhart-Mummery | 1918 – 1988 | Son of John Lockhart-Mummery. Appointed Surgeon to the Royal Household in 1969 and later Surgeon to The Queen and then Serjeant-Surgeon. |
| Sir Edward Muir | 1906 – 1973 | Broderic scholar, pathologist and colorectal surgeon. He was appointed surgeon to the Royal Household in 1954, and surgeon to the Queen in 1964. Shortly before his death he became Sergeant Surgeon. |
| John Creyghton Ainsworth-Davis | 1895 – 1976 | |

## Later years

By the early 1990s, the hospital had increased bed capacity to 62 and its medical and surgical staff numbered 87.
| Name | birth/death | Comments |
| John Scadding | | Neurologist |
| Michael Shipley | | Rheumatologist |
| Harvey White | Born 1936 | Prior to holding an appointment at the King Edward VII Hospital for Officers, he was consultant surgeon at The Royal Marsden Hospital from 1976. |
| Reginald Wyndham Lloyd-Davies | 1934 – 2023 | Urologist |
| Marcus Setchell | Born 1943 | |
| Richard Thompson | Born 1940 | |
| Roger Vickers | Born 1945 | Operated at King Edward VII's Hospital from 1992 to 2011. |
| Ratcliffe Martin Bowen Wright | | |
| Sir Allen Goldsmith | | Broderip scholar |
| Edward Lawson McDonald | | |
| Kenneth Henry Stokes | | |
| Robert Maxwell Chance | | |
| Sir Kenneth Robson | 1909 – 1978 | Graduated from Middlesex Hospital, where he was a Broderip scholar, and where he later worked. He specialized in thoracic medicine at the Brompton Hospital and at St George’s Hospital. |
| Horace Evans, 1st Baron Evans | 1903 – 1963 | |
| Sarah Muirhead-Allwood | Born 1947 | Orthopaedic surgeon |
| Helen Parkhouse | 1956 – 2010 | Urologist at St Thomas' Hospital, trained under Wyndham Lloyd-Davies and Richard Turner-Warwick. Her work involved research on bladder dysfunction in Parkinson's disease. At the KEVII, she dealt with female urology. |
| Richard Turner-Warwick | 1925 – 2020 | Urologist on the staff of the Middlesex Hospital and St Peter’s Hospital. Introduced video-cysto-urethrography. Recipient of the St Peter's Medal. |

## 21st Century

The historian Richard Hough, in his book Sister Agnes (1998) described the hospital near the turn of the 21st century as "effectively the Royal Family's hospital" and as result "requires the Household's medical staff to be on the list. The list of consultants totalled near 100 at the hospital's centenary. In 2018 there were 300 physicians and surgeons at the hospital working under a "practising privileges agreement", granted after the consultant selection and review committee (CSRC) approve and invite a consultant.
| Name | birth/death | Comments |
| Justin Cobb | | Consultant orthopaedic surgeon at the Middlesex Hospital before Imperial. Orthopedic surgeon to the Queen and advisor to the RAF. |
| John Cunningham | | Professor of nephrology. |
| Alan Farthing | Born 1963 | Surgeon Gynaecologist to the Royal Household in 2008 and to the Queen in 2013. |
| The Lord Kakkar | Born 1964 | |
| Roger Kirby | Born 1950 | |
| Charles Knight | | Cardiologist and chief executive of St Bartholomew's Hospital |
| Caroline Moore | | The first woman to be made a professor of urology in the United Kingdom. |
| Dame Lesley Regan | Born 1956 | Professor of gynaecology at Imperial College. Between 2016 and 2019 she served as the president of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. |
| Huw Thomas | | |
| George Fieldman | Born 1955 | Consultant Chartered Psychologist, Cognitive Behavioral Psychotherapist, Executive Coach and Mentor, with a research background in biological psychology and occupational health psychology. Father of British Olympic coxswain, Henry Fieldman. |