Charles Brandon Trye

Charles Brandon Trye was an English surgeon, born on 21 August 1757 and dead on 7 October 1811. Apprenticed in 1773 to an apothecary in Worcester, he became a pupil of William Russell at the Worcester Infirmary and in 1780 went to London to study under John Hunter, working as house surgeon at Westminster Hospital and as a dissector and assistant in a private anatomical school. Returning to Gloucester, he served as house apothecary and from July 1784 as surgeon to the Gloucester Infirmary, a post he held until 1810. In 1793 he helped establish a lying-in charity in Gloucester with the Rev. Thomas Stock. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1807 and was a promoter of vaccination, well regarded by Edward Jenner. He also inherited an estate at Leckhampton, opened the stone quarries on Leckhampton Hill and built a tramway to carry stone to the River Severn. His library of medical books was sold at auction in 1813.