Henry Herbert Southey

After education at private schools in and near Great Yarmouth, his brother Robert proposed to establish him in his house in London in order that he might study anatomy under Sir Anthony Carlisle at Westminster Hospital.

[citation needed] In November 1803 he entered the University of Edinburgh, where Sir William Knighton and Dr. Robert Gooch were his fellow students and friends.

on 24 June 1806, reading a dissertation ‘De ortu et progressu syphilidis’ (Edinburgh, 1806), in which he maintained the American origin of syphilis.

[citation needed] He became a licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians on 22 December 1812, and was elected a fellow on 25 June 1823.

He delivered the Harveian oration in 1847, was elected physician to the Middlesex Hospital on 17 August 1815 and held office till April 1827.

She died post-partum on 12 January 1830 in Harley Street, London,[4] leaving seven young children.

He also wrote the life of Gooch in the ‘Lives of British Physicians,’ published in 1830 (see William Macmichael), and made contributions to periodicals.