Frederic Carpenter Skey

[2] An outcome of Skey's separation from the teaching staff of St. Bartholomew's Hospital was the revival of the Aldersgate Street school of medicine.

In the hands of James Hope, Robert Bentley Todd, Marshall Hall, and Jonathan Pereira, it became known as a private teaching establishment, and for many years rivalled the neighbouring school of St. Bartholomew's Hospital.

[2] Skey was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1837, and he was appointed to lecture on anatomy in the medical school of St. Bartholomew's Hospital in 1843, an office he resigned in 1865.

He became full surgeon to the hospital in May 1854, but in consequence of a new rule calling on members of the staff to retire on attaining the age of 65, he relinquished the post on 18 January 1864.

In 1859 he served the office of president of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society, and in 1864, at the instigation of his friend and patient, Benjamin Disraeli, he was appointed chairman at the Admiralty of the first parliamentary committee to inquire into the best mode of treating venereal disease in the army and navy.