John Painter Vincent

John was apprenticed to Mr. Long, surgeon to Christ's Hospital from 1790 to 1807, and lived in Lincoln's Inn Fields.

On 22 July 1822 he was elected a member of the council of the Royal College of Surgeons, and on 5 January 1828 he succeeded to the court of examiners in place of Thompson Forster.

He delivered the Hunterian oration in 1829, and he served the office of vice-president in 1830, 1831, 1838, and 1839, and of president of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1832 and 1840.

[1] Vincent married, on 28 May 1812, Maria, daughter of Samuel Parke of Kensington, by whom he had six children, of whom three sons survived him.

She died in October 1824, and he then married Elizabeth Mary Williams, who outlived him.