OBITUARY.
SIR P. G. HEWETT. [Special to Press Association.] [Received June 22, at 11 a.m.] LONDON, June 21. Sir Prescott G. Hewett, surgeon. Sir Prescott Gardner Hewett, Bart., F.E.S., received hia professional education at St George’s Hospital and in Paris, on the completion of which he passed his examination, and became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England July 15, 1836. He was made an honorary Fellow of the College when the new charter was granted to that institution in December, 1843. lu 1867 the Fellows of the College elected him a member of the Council. He had previously been appointed a Professor or Human Anatomy and Surgery. In 1876 he succeeded Sir James Paget ss President of the College, and in July, 1883, he was created a baronet. He was one of Her Majesty’s Sergeant-Surgeons, and also Surgeon-in-Ordinary to the Prince of Wales. He was the author of some valuable papers in the Transactions of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society, and of the Pathological and Clinical Societies, and of tho two latter he has filled the President’s chair. He was also a member of many learned and scientific societies at Home and abroad.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXV, Issue 9447, 23 June 1891, Page 5
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