John Simon (pathologist)

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Sir

John Simon

Chief Medical Officer
Signature

John Simon in 1881
Blue plaque, 40 Kensington Square, Kensington, London

Sir John Simon

Chief Medical Officer
for Her Majesty's Government from 1855–1876.

Biography

John Simon was born in London to Louis Michael Simon, a stockbroker, and Mathilde (née Nonnet).

member of the Royal College of Surgeons.[3] In 1845 he won the Astley Cooper Prize for an essay entitled "Physiological Essay on the Thymus Gland"; he was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) the same year.[1]

In the mid-19th century, the government took measures to promote

From 1867 to 1869 he was President of the Pathological Society of London.[5]

He married, in 1848, Jane O´Meara, daughter of Deputy Commissioner-General Matthew Delaval O´Meara. Lady Simon died aged 85 in London 19 August 1901.[6]

Simon died on 23 July 1904 in London and was buried at

Ladywell Cemetery in Lewisham.[1]

Recognition

LSHTM
Frieze

Simon's name features on the Frieze of the

London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Twenty-three names of public health and tropical medicine pioneers were chosen to feature on the School building in Keppel Street when it was constructed in 1926.[7]

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References

Footnotes
  1. ^
    doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/36097. Retrieved 12 October 2011. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  2. ^ a b "Simon, Sir John (1816–1904)", Catalogues of the Surgeon General's Library, Royal College of Surgeons, 2006, retrieved 12 October 2011
  3. ^ a b Schneider, p. 193
  4. ^ a b Clay, p. 32
  5. ^ "Transactions of the Pathological Society". Retrieved 27 October 2012.
  6. ^ "Obituary". The Times. No. 36539. London. 21 August 1901. p. 8.
  7. ^ "Behind the Frieze". Retrieved 21 February 2017.
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