Joseph Hodgson

He practised at King Street, Cheapside, and was editor of the London Medical Review.

In the autumn of 1823 he organised a campaign for an Eye Infirmary in Birmingham which was successful, the Charity opening for the reception of patients on 13 April 1824.

He was asked in 1840 to become Surgeon to the Middlesex Hospital and Professor of Surgery at King's College, but declined both offers.

In 1849, having made a considerable fortune in Birmingham, chiefly by lithotomy, he returned to London.

He died on 7 February 1869, twenty-four hours after his wife, and left one daughter.