George Murray Humphry

Sir George Murray Humphry, FRS was a professor of physiology and anatomy at Cambridge, surgeon, gerontologist and medical writer.

He was born at Sudbury in Suffolk onJuly 1820, the third son of William Wood Humphry, a barrister. He was educated at the grammar schools of Sudbury and Dedham, and in 1836 he was apprenticed to John Green Crosse, surgeon to the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital. In 1839 he left Norwich and entered as a student at St Bartholomews Hospital in London, where he came under the influence of Peter Mere Latham, William Lawrence, and James Paget. He passed the first M.B. examination at the London University in 1840, obtaining the gold medal in anatomy and physiology but did not present himself for the final examination.

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