Edward James Shearman

Dr Edward James Shearman FRCP FRCS FRSE (1798–2 October 1878) was a 19th-century British surgeon and author.

He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh graduating with an MB ChB around 1818.

He then did practical experience in St George's Hospital in London before postgraduate studies in Jena in south-east Germany where he received his doctorate (MD).

His earlier career is unclear but from 1841 he was a surgeon the Rotherham Dispensary and a General practitioner in that town.

[1] In 1870 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, his proposer being Arthur Abney Walker.