Arthur Ernest Sansom

Arthur Ernest Sansom FRCP (13 May 1838 in Corsham – 10 March 1907 in Bournemouth) was an English physician, known for his pioneering research on anaesthesiology, the use of carbolic acid in medicine, and diagnosis of heart disease.

[1] Sansom was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1878.

He was President of the Medical Society of London for the year 1897.

In a number of his published Obituaries in 1907, the final sentence states that - ‘He was survived by his wife and six children’.

This was incorrect, as at his death seven legitimate children survived him.