John Bishop (surgeon)

[1]Bishop was originally intended for the legal profession, but this intention was never carried out, and for many years he led the life of a country gentleman.

When about twenty-five years of age Bishop was induced by his cousin, John Tucker of Bridport, to enter the medical profession.

After a short preliminary practice, under the direction of his relative, at Bridport, he came to London and entered at St. George's Hospital under Sir Everard Home.

Bishop contributed several articles to Bentley Todd's Cyclopædia of Anatomy and Physiology, and many papers of more or less importance to the medical literature of the day.

[1] Bishop was a man of varied attainments; he was conversant with continental as well as English literature, and to within a few months of his death he was deeply interested in the progress of science.