Sir Everard Home, 1st Baronet

Wikipedia Biographical Summary

Sir Everard Home, 1st Baronet FRS (b. Kingston upon Hull, 6 May 1756; d. 31 August 1832 in London) was a British surgeon.

Home was born in Kingston-upon-Hull and educated at Westminster School. He gained a schoalrship to Trinity College, Cambridge, but decided instead to become a pupil of his brother-in-law, John Hunter, at St George's Hospital. Hunter had married his sister, the poet and socialite Anne Home, in July 1771. He assisted Hunter in many of his anatomical investigations, and in the autumn of 1776 he partly described Hunter's collection. There is also considerable evidence that Home plagiarized Hunter's work, sometimes directly, sometimes indirectly; he also systematically destroyed his brother-in-law's papers in order to hide evidence of this plagiarism.

Having qualified at Surgeons' Hall in 1778, Home was appointed assistant surgeon at the naval hospital, Plymouth. In 1787 he appointed assistant surgeon, later surgeon, at St George's Hospital. He became Sergeant Surgeon to the King in 1808 and Surgeon at Chelsea Hospital in 1821. He was made a baronet (of Well Manor in the County of Southampton) in 1813.

He was the first to describe the fossil creature (later 'Ichthyosaur') discovered near Lyme Regis by Joseph Anning and Mary Anning in 1812. Following John Hunter, he initially suggested it had affinities with fish. Home also did some of the earliest studies on the anatomy of platypus and noted that it was not viviparous, theorizing that it was instead ovoviviparous. Home published prolifically on human and animal anatomy.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1787, gave their Croonian Lecture many times between 1793 and 1829 and received their Copley Medal in 1807.

SOURCE: Wikipedia contributors, 'Everard Home', Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 8 March 2013, 18:43 UTC, <http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Everard_Home&oldid=542868982> [accessed 23 January 2014]

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Sir Everard HOME Bart.

Everard HOME

17561,2 - 31st Aug 183211,12

Life History

1756

Born in Hull.1,2

Father - Robert Home, army surgeon of Greenlaw Castle Mother - Mary, daughter of Col. Alexander Hutchinson Brother - Robert Home, the painter

1773

Career in St George's Hospital.1

Became a surgical pupil to his brother-in-law - John Hunter

1778

Qualification.2

Admitted as a member of the Corporation of the College of Surgeons

1779

Appointed in Plymouth, Naval Hospital

Assistant Surgeon

31st Jul 1783

Mentioned in Will.3

of Robert Home Described as "my fourth son Everard"

3rd Nov 1792

Married Jane TUNSTALL in St Martins in the Fields.17

Groom - Everard Home Bride - Jane Thompson, daughter of Revd Dr Tunstall and widow of Stephen Thompson

1793

Birth of daughter Jane HOME in Soho, St Anne's.13

3rd May 1794

Witness at wedding in Greenwich, St Alphege.4

of Agnes Margaretta Hunter and James Campbell

1795

Birth of daughter Mary Elizabeth HOME in Soho, St Anne's.14

approx. 1796

Birth of daughter Harriet Catherine HOME

6th Jun 1797

Witness at wedding in Clerkenwell, St James.5

of Caroline Mylne and William Duncan

approx. 1798

Birth of son James Everard HOME

26th Dec 1802

Birth of daughter Charlotte HOME in Westminster.15

29th Aug 1803

Mentioned in Will.6

of Robert Mylne Described as :- "my brother in law Everard Home and his wife Mrs Home"

approx. 1805

Birth of daughter Anna Maria HOME

1808

Career.1

Appointed Sergeant-Surgeon to George 111

11th Jun 1811

Death of daughter Anna Maria HOME in Germany, Senderhorst.16

1st Jun 1811

Executor.6

of the will of Robert Mylne Joint executors :- William Chadwell Mylne Everard Home William Duncan

1813

Knighted.1

Made a baronet

4th Jan 1819

Mentioned in Will.7

of Anne Hunter nee Home Described as - "my brother Sir Everard Home Bart"

1821

Career in Chelsea Hospital.1

Appointed Surgeon

19th Jan 1821

Executor.7

of Anne Hunter née Home Joint executor with :- Matthew Baillie Lady Agnes Margaretta Campbell

10th Aug 1821

Witness at wedding in St Marylebone.8

of Agnes Margaretta Campbell and Benjamin Charlewood

3rd Sep 1824

Mentioned in Will.9

of William Duncan Described as :- "Sir Everard Home of Sackville Street"

1st Apr 1830

Executor in Prerogative Court of Canterbury.9

of the estate of William Duncan Executors :- Caroline Duncan the widow the relict Sir Everard Home Baronet John Cotterell Esquire David Leghorn Esquire

28th Apr 1830

Wrote will

1) This is the last will and testament 2) of me Sir Everard Home of Well Manor Farm in the county of Southampton Baronet 3) I desire to be buried in the burial grounds of Chelsea Hospital ... ... ...

Some names mentioned :- 1) My eldest son Everard Home 2) My daughter Charlotte Home

8th Aug 1830

Codicil to Will

31st Aug 1832

Died in Chelsea Hospital.11,12

From the Morning Post :- "On the 31st of August, at his residence in Chelsea Hospital, Sir Everard Home, Bart, in the 77th year of his age"

From the Examiner :- "On Friday week, at his apartments in Chelsea College, Sir Everard Home, one of the most eminent medical men of his day He was of ancient Scottish lineage, and at an early age embraced the profession of physic, which he practised with great success in the metropolis for more than 40 years. The publications of the Baronet were voluminous, and of high repute. His late Majesty, when Prince Regent, raised him (Jan. 2, 1813) to the dignity of Baronet, by the title of Sir Everard home, of Well Manor Farm, Southampton, and also conferred on him the appointment of Serjeant-Surgeon, in which office he was continued by the present king. Sir Everard was also Surgeon to Chelsea Hospital, Honorary Professor of Anatomy and Surgery to the Royal College of Surgeons. For many years he was elected to the Presidentship of the college. Sir Everard was in his 77th year. He is succeeded by his eldest son James Everard (now Sir James Everard Home) a Commander in the Royal Navy"

Other facts

Portrait in Royal Society of London.10

of Sir Everard Home (Member of the Royal Society of London)

From Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 7, No. 1 (Dec., 1929, pp. 97-107. Published by the Royal Society.

The Society Portraits "HOME, Sir Everard Home, Bart. (1756-1832), Elected 1785. Master 1813 and First President of the Royal College of Surgeons. By. T. Phillips. Presented by Sir Everard Home"

Buried in Chelsea Hospital, Burial Ground.1

Birth of son William Archibald HOME

Notes •For more information see :_

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography :- N. G. Coley, "Home, Sir Everard, first baronet (1756-1832), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford university Press, 2004; online edn, May 2010 (http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/13639, accessed 26/07/20121 •Portraits of Everard Home

Portrait of Everard Home by Sir William Beechley, Unsigned, Probably late 1790s or early 1800s. Royal College of Surgeons Inscription - "SIR EVERARD HOME 1746-1832"18

Sources 1. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography - Sir Everard Home http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/13639

2. GRIGSON, Caroline (2009) : "The life and poems of Anne Hunter: Haydn's tuneful voice" Liverpool University Press, 2009

3. Will of Robert Home, Surgeon to the Savoy of Gresse Street Rathbone Place London TNA - PROB 11/1137

4. London, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921 - Hunter & Campbell - 1794 http://www.ancestry.co.uk

5. London, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921 - Caroline Mylne & William Duncan - 1797 http://www.ancestry.co.uk

6. Will of Robert Mylne, Architect and Engineer of Saint James Clerkenwell, Middlesex TNA - PROB 11/1523

7. Will of Anne Hunter, Widow of Saint George Hanover Square, Middlesex TNA - PROB 111/1638

8. London, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921 - Agnes Margaretta Campbell & Benjamin Charlewood http://www.ancestry,co.uk

9. Will of William Duncan, Colonel in the Service of the Honourable the East India company of Gower Street Bedford Square, Middlesex TNA - PROB 11/1769/388

10. Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London - Portraits - Sir Everard Home http://www.jstor.org/stable/530727

11. Morning Post - Deaths - Sir Everard Home Morning Post, Saturday 01 September 1832

12. Examiner - Deaths - Everard Home - 1832 The Examiner, Sunday, 09 September 1832

13. Pallot's Baptism Index, 1780-1837 - Jane Home - 1793 http://www.ancestry.co.uk

14. Pallot's Baptism Index, 1780-1837 - Mary Eliz Home - 1795 http://www.ancestry.co.uk

15. England & Wales Christening Records, 1530-1906 - Charlotte Home - 1802 http://www.ancestry.co.uk

16. Germany, Deaths and Burials, 1582-1958 - Anna Maria Home http.//familysearch.org

17. England Marriages, 1538-1973 - HOME & THOMPSON - 1792 http://familysearch,org

18. Portrait of EVERARD HOME by Sir William Beechey, unsigned, probably late 1790s or early 1800s http://surgicat.rcseng.org.uk/Details/collect/54992

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