Jonathan Hutchinson

Sir Jonathan Hutchinson was an English surgeon, ophthalmologist, dermatologist, venereologist and pathologist, born at Selby, Yorkshire, in 1828 and dead in 1913. Apprenticed to a York surgeon and apothecary, he entered St Bartholomew Hospital in London under the influence of Sir James Paget and became a skilled operator and scientific inquirer. He practised at many London hospitals, edited the British Medical Journal, served as professor of surgery and pathology at the Royal College of Surgeons and as its president in 1889, and became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1882. His principal work concerned syphilis, and he described the triad of notched incisor teeth, labyrinthine deafness and interstitial keratitis in congenital syphilis, known as Hutchinson triad. Many signs and diseases carry his name. He founded the Haslemere Educational Museum and was knighted in 1908.