Edward John Waring

Edward John Waring (14 December 1819 – 22 January 1891) was a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London and a surgeon in the British East India Company.

He wrote several books on medicine including A Manual of Practical Therapeutics (1865), Pharmacopoeia of India (1866), and the two-volume Bibliotheca Therapeutica (1878).

He married Caroline Anne Day, who came from a wealthy Sussex family, in 1847 and quit practice to live in Uckfield for a while but was forced by financial losses to join the East India Company in 1849 in the Madras Presidency.

He became an editor of the Indian Pharmacopoeia in 1865 along with a committee consisting of Robert Wight, Alexander Gibson, James Ranald Martin, Daniel Hanbury and other eminent men of medicine.

[3] He was made CIE in 1881 and was a Fellow of the Royal Medico-Chirurgical Society and an honorary member of the Société de Pharmacie, Paris.