John William Ogle

John William Ogle FRCP[1] FSA[2] (30 July 1824, Leeds – 8 August 1905) was an English physician, honoured as the 1880 Harveian Orator.

At St George's Hospital he was curator of the museum of morbid anatomy with Henry Gray, upon whose death in 1861 he succeeded to the lecturership on pathology.

His independently published works were the Harveian oration for 1880 at the Royal College of Physicians, which contains much scholarly information, and a small work 'On the Relief of Excessive and Dangerous Tympanites by Puncture of the Abdomen,' 1888.

[6]Ogle married in 1854 and the marriage produced five sons and one daughter.

He was a devout Anglican and in the last years of his life, suffering from paralytic weakness, he lived at Highgate vicarage with one of his sons.