John Heaviside (surgeon)

[1] He was born in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, the son of the surgeon John Heaviside (died 1787) and his wife, Mary Elliott, and was baptised in 1748.

[2] After a time at St Bartholomew's Hospital, Heaviside was an army surgeon in the Grenadier Guards until 1788.

He inherited a fortune from his father, and bought a house in Hanover Square to live in, and also in 1793 the medical collection of the surgeon Henry Watson.

The house, at 14 George Street, became celebrated as an anatomical museum, and Heaviside published a catalogue in 1818.

He spent a week in Newgate Prison in 1803, after attending a duel, with damage to his reputation.