George William Callender
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George William Callender (1830–1879) was an English surgeon.
Callender was born at Clifton, and, after education at a Bristol school, became a medical student at St. Bartholomew's Hospital in 1849. In 1852 he was a member of the Royal College of Surgeons, and a fellow in 1855.[1]
Callnder was house-surgeon at St. Bartholomew's, was in 1861 elected assistant surgeon, and in 1871 surgeon to the hospital. At the same time he was a lateacher in the medical school, was registrar (1854), demonstrator of anatomy, lecturer on comparative anatomy and on anatomy (1865), and finally (1873) lecturer on surgery. For many years he was treasurer of the medical school.[1]
Callender lived in Queen Anne Street, married Sophia Bousfield in 1859,[2] and had several children. He died on 20 October 1879[3] of Bright's disease, at sea on his way back from America. He was buried at West Norwood Cemetery.
