Person Travers; Benjamin (1783 - 1858); surgeon Travers Benjamin surgeon 1783 - 1858 British Male 03 April 1783 17830403 Green Street, Grosvenor Square, London 06 March 1858 18580306 Burial: Hendon, Middlesex

3 New Broad Street, London, as apprentice (1800-1806), as owner (1816) ; New Court, St Swithin's Lane, London (1807) Old Broad Street, London; Bruton Street (from 1828) Green Street, Grosvenor Square, London

Surgeon Education: Cheshunt Grammar School, Hertfordshire; apprenticed to surgeon Sir Astley Cooper FRS (1800-1806); Edinburgh (1807) Career: Worked in his father's counting house (c1799); demonstrator, later lecturer, of anatomy, Guy's Hospital, London (1807-1819) with Astley Cooper; Surgeon to the East India Company's warehouses and brigade (1809-1814); Surgeon, London Infirmary for Diseases of the Eye (1810-1816) developing it as a teaching institution and playing an important roll in professionalising optical surgery and opthalmology; Surgeon, St Thomas's Hospital, London (1815-1841); moved into Sir Astley Cooper's former house in Old Broad Street and built up a lucrative medical practice; lecturer in anatomy, with Frederick Tyell, St Thomas's Hospital (1834); Surgeon Extraordinary to Queen Victoria (1837); Surgeon in Ordinary to Prince Albert (1840); held numerous office in the Royal College of Surgeons; died of heart disease Memberships: Royal Medico-Chirurgical Society (President 1833); FRCP (President 1856); Hunterian Society (President 1827); FRCS (President 1847, 1856) Son of Benjamin Travers, sugar refiner and Mary Spilsbury, daughter of Reverend Francis Spilsbury Married (1) Sarah Morgan, daughter of William (1807), (2) Caroline Millet daughter of and East India Compant Director (1813), (3) Mary Poulett daughter of Colonel Stevens of Somerset (1831); brother-in-law of Arthur Morgan (FRS 1835) Awarded part of the compensation for the enslaved people of the Marble Hill estate on Antigua, likely as a trustee of his sister Caroline Ottley nee Travers Fellow 16/11/1815 Sources: Bulloch's Roll; DNB; Ancestry; UCL LBS References: 'Benjamin Travers', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/773 [accessed 9th June 2020]. Obituaries: Proc Roy Soc 1857-1859 vol 9 pp 551-555 International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 Synopsis of the Diseases of the Eye and their Treatment (1820) 3 Apr 1783 - 6 Mar 1858 NA1502 21/11/2001 Andyg Martind 28/03/2023 RS_NET\JonathanB yes http://viaf.org/viaf/74635248 7bd0443d-468a-4d48-a1de-df38caf8ed86