Everard Home

Sir Everard Home, 1st Baronet (1756 to 1832), was an English surgeon born in Kingston-upon-Hull and educated at Westminster School. He trained under his brother-in-law John Hunter at St George's Hospital and helped with Hunter's anatomical work and the description of his collection. After qualifying at Surgeons' Hall in 1778 he served as assistant surgeon at the naval hospital in Plymouth, then as surgeon at St George's from 1787, Sergeant Surgeon to the King from 1808 and surgeon at Chelsea Hospital from 1821, and he was made a baronet in 1813. A Fellow of the Royal Society, he gave its Croonian Lecture many times and received its Copley Medal in 1807. He published widely on human and animal anatomy, described the fossil later called an ichthyosaur and studied the platypus. There is also evidence that he plagiarized Hunter's work and destroyed Hunter's papers.