The Dorset County Hospital Staff Database includes every honorary or paid member of staff known to date who trained or worked at Dorset County Hospital from 1841 to 1948. Entries give the person’s name, the post(s) held, their age (if known), career events, and details of the data source.
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There are also detailed individual Profiles for the hospital’s medical staff, matrons, chaplains, clerks and dispensers. These are listed below (if ‘Profile’ is not showing, this is because it has not been completed yet).
In addition, a few images of honorary and paid staff have survived – click on Staff Images to access these or click on the word ‘Image’ next to an individual’s name in the following list. This site does not own the copyright for any of the images, so please contact the copyright holder if you wish to use them.
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PROFILES FROM THE DORSET COUNTY HOSPITAL STAFF DATABASE
Surname | First names | Lived | Hospital posts | ||
ADAMS | Percy Edward | 1872-1952 | House Surgeon (1896-97) | Profile | |
ALLAN | Alexander William | 1868-1954 | House Surgeon (1892-93) | Profile | |
ARDEN | Christopher | 1788-1861 | Consulting Surgeon (1841-61) | Profile | |
BARTLETT | Ralph Clarke | 1870-1938 | House Surgeon (1894) | Profile | Image |
BENNETT | William James | 1845-67 | House Surgeon (1867) | Profile | |
COLLEY | Thomas | 1894-1983 | Honorary Ophthalmologist (c 1827- ?) | Image | |
COOPER | Christopher | 1772-1842 | Consulting Physician (1841-42) | Profile | |
COWDELL | Charles | 1815-71 | Honorary Physician (1849-71) | Profile | Image |
CUMBERBATCH | Elkin Percy | 1880-1939 | House Surgeon (1909-10) | Profile | Image |
CURME | George | 1807-87 | Honorary Surgeon (1841-68). Consulting Surgeon (1868-87) | Profile | |
DANCY | Susannah | 1797 -1888 | Matron (1847-69) | Profile | |
DAY | Edward Joseph | 1852-1933 | House surgeon (1875-76) | Profile | |
EDWARDS | Jane Elizabeth | 1857-1934 | Nurse (c 1892-99). Matron (1899-1912) | Profile | |
EMSON | Alfred | 1817-87 | House Apothecary (1843-45). Honorary Surgeon (1868-87). Consulting Surgeon (1887) | Profile | |
ENSOR | Alfred | 1841-67 | House Surgeon (1865-67) | Profile | |
FEEK | Thedora Sophia | 1844-87 | Matron (1874-82) | Profile | Image |
GOODWIN | Doris Mary | 1899-1976 | Matron (1939- ?) | Image | |
HAMILTON | James Oliver | 1886-1938 | Honorary Pathologist (1921-25) | Profile | Image |
HAYES | Jessey Mary | 1848-1919 | Matron (1894-99) | Profile | |
HILL | Edith Sarah | 1883-1942 | Matron (1917-31) | Profile | Image |
LAWRENCE | Henrietta Amelia Eliza | 1853-?1926 | Matron (1888-93) | Profile | |
LUSH | William George Vawdrey | 1834-1904 | Honorary Physician (1872-1904) | Image | |
MESSUM | Julian Alexander Broker Galsworthy | 1849-1906 | House Surgeon (1879-80) | Profile | |
MORGAN | Frederick Francis | 1847-1906 | Chaplain (1873-74) | Profile | |
MOULE | George Evans | 1828-1912 | Chaplain (1855-57) | Image | |
NICOLAY | Mary Ann | 1850-1939 | Matron (1887-88) | Image | |
NORBURY | William | 1869-1956 | House Surgeon (1895-96) | Profile | |
OLD | Joseph Edgar Sydney | 1869-1935 | House Surgeon (1899) | Profile | |
PALGRAVE | Edward Francis | c1876-1925 | House Surgeon (1899) | Profile | |
PRIDEAUX | Charles Sydney | 1870-1934 | Honorary Dental Surgeon (1896-1925). Consulting Dental Surgeon (1925-?34). | Profile | Image |
SACKETT | Grace Edith | 1856-1932 | Matron (1887) | Profile | |
SHACKLETON | Thomas Francis | 1860-1921 | House Surgeon (1888-91) | Profile | |
TAPP | William Denning | 1796-1877 | Honorary Surgeon (1841-61). Consulting Surgeon (1861-68) | Profile | |
WARD | Frances Elizabeth Greaves | 1853-1934 | Matron (1893-94) | Profile | |
WOOD | Susan | 1803-99 | Matron (1841-47) | Profile | Image |
WYKESMITH | Pelham | 1872-1912 | House Surgeon (1896) | Profile | |
WYNN WERNINCK | Pelham Vansittart | 1884-1955 | House Surgeon (1915-17) | Profile | Image |