George William Callender

George William Callender (1830 to 1879) was an English surgeon and teacher of anatomy at St Bartholomew's Hospital in London. Born at Clifton and educated at a Bristol school, he became a medical student at the hospital in 1849, a member of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1852 and a fellow in 1855. He rose from house surgeon to assistant surgeon in 1861 and surgeon in 1871, while teaching in the medical school as demonstrator of anatomy and as lecturer on comparative anatomy, anatomy and finally surgery, and serving for many years as treasurer of the school. A paper on the development of the bones of the face in man, published in 1869, led to his election as Fellow of the Royal Society in 1871, and he also published on the anatomy of the thyroid body and of the parts concerned in femoral rupture. He died of Bright's disease in 1879, at sea on his way back from America.