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Authorised form of nameErichsen; Sir; John Eric (1818 - 1896)
Dates1818 - 1896
Place of birthCopenhagen, Denmark
Date of birth19 July 1818
Place of deathFolkestone, Kent
Date of death23 September 1896
DatesAndPlacesBurial:
Hampstead, London
ActivityEducation:
University College, London
Career:
Assistant Surgeon, University College Hospital (1848); Surgeon (1850-1875); Professor of Surgery, University College Hospital (1850-1866); Surgeon Extraordinary to Queen Victoria (1877)
Honours:
Bt 1895
Memberships:
MRCS (1839); FRCS (1845, President 1880)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election01/06/1876
RelationshipsSon of Eric Erichsen, banker, of Copenhagen; married (10 September 1842) Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Captain Thomas Cole RN
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1897 vol 61 pp i-iii signed by E A S
CodeNA2820
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
EC/1876/10Erichsen, Sir John Eric: certificate of election to the Royal Society
NLB/10/598Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Harrison & Sons[January 1895]
NLB/11/440Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir John Eric Erichsen, Fellow of the Royal Society1 July 1895
NLB/13/484Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Messrs Harrison & Sons25 September 1896
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