Everard Home

Everard Home, portrait by Thomas Phillips

Sir Everard Home, 1st Baronet FRS (born May 6, 1756 in Kingston upon Hull , † August 31, 1832 in London ) was a British doctor and a member of the Royal Society .

Home attended Westminster School . He subsequently received a scholarship while at Trinity College of the University of Cambridge , but then decided to create a training with his brother John Hunter , at St. George's Hospital in London. He assisted Hunter in numerous studies of anatomy and in the autumn of 1776 he described parts of his anatomical collection.

After his license to practice medicine, Home worked at the Naval Hospital in Plymouth and returned to St. George's Hospital in London in 1787. There he rose to the position of first surgeon (director of the surgical clinic according to today's nomenclature) and became the king's personal physician.

Home is the first to describe the ichthyosaurs . During his anatomical studies on the fossil, he found that the animal hatched its eggs in the womb . Home also published on human anatomy.

In 1787 Home became a member of the Royal Society and in 1807 he received the Copley Medal . In 1813 he was elected a corresponding member of the Académie des Sciences and in 1814 a foreign member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . In 1832 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Individual evidence

^ NG Coley: Home, Sir Everard, first baronet (1756-1832). In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison (Eds.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861411-X , ( oxforddnb.com license required ), as of May 2010
↑ Home, Baronet (Sir. Everard). In: Adolph Carl P. Callisen: Medicinisches Writer Lexicon. Self-published, Copenhagen 1832, p. 79 ( online ).
↑ Ann Moyal: Platypus. P. 12 f.
↑ Entry on Home; Sir; Everard (1756-1832); 1st Baronet Surgeon in the Archives of the Royal Society , London
↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 117.

personal data
SURNAME	Home, Everard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Home, Sir Everard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British anatomist and surgeon, first descriptor of the ichthyosaur
DATE OF BIRTH	May 6, 1756
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kingston upon Hull
DATE OF DEATH	August 31, 1832
Place of death	London

[1] NG Coley: Home, Sir Everard, first baronet (1756-1832). In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison (Eds.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861411-X , ( oxforddnb.com license required ), as of May 2010

[2] Home, Baronet (Sir. Everard). In: Adolph Carl P. Callisen: Medicinisches Writer Lexicon. Self-published, Copenhagen 1832, p. 79 ( online ).

[3] Ann Moyal: Platypus. P. 12 f.

[4] Entry on Home; Sir; Everard (1756-1832); 1st Baronet Surgeon in the Archives of the Royal Society , London

[5] Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 117.