George Webster (medical practitioner)

Dr. George Webster, G.P., J.P. (died 19 November 1876) was the founder of the first British Medical Association, sometimes known as "Webster's Medical Association".[1]

The memorial to George Webster (left), outside the College of God's Gift in Dulwich, erected in 1877.

The association was founded in 1836, and the first meeting of the association was held on 19 January 1837 at Exeter Hall.[2][1]

A fountain at the centre of Dulwich was erected in his memory in 1876, where he had lived for 60 years.[3]

References
  1. Adrian Desmond (1989). The Politics of Evolution: Morphology, Medicine, and Reform in Radical London. University of Chicago Press. pp. 126–. ISBN 978-0-226-14346-0.
  2. The Lancet London: A Journal of British and Foreign Medicine, Surgery, Obstetrics, Physiology, Chemistry, Pharmacology, Public Health and News. Elsevier. 1837. pp. 593–.
  3. THE Medical times and Gazette. A JOURNAL OF MEDICAL SCIENCE, LITERATURE, CRITICISM, AND NEWS. 1876. p. 102.


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