Thomas Wormald

Thomas Wormald (January 1802 to 28 December 1873) was an English surgeon of St Bartholomew's Hospital in London. Born at Pentonville, the son of a partner in Child's bank, he was schooled in Yorkshire and returned to London in 1818 to be apprenticed to the surgeon John Abernethy, who set him to preparing specimens for lectures and teaching the junior students. He became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1824 and served as demonstrator of anatomy for fifteen years. He was elected assistant surgeon at the hospital in 1838 and full surgeon in 1861, and was surgeon to the Foundling Hospital from 1843 to 1864. At the Royal College he held all the important offices and was elected president in 1865. He is described as the last of Abernethy's apprentices and as a teacher of surgical anatomy who has seldom been surpassed. With A. M. McWhinnie he published a series of anatomical sketches and diagrams in 1838. He died at Gomersal in Yorkshire.