Arthur Marmaduke Sheild (1858–1922) was a surgeon, whose career was curtailed by an accidental, self-inflicted injury while operating, and a benefactor of Cambridge University, which named its chair in pharmacology in his honour.
In 1875, he began a distinguished student career at St George's Hospital winning the Brackenbury Prize and two William Brown Exhibitions before graduating MRCS in 1879.
After starting as a house surgeon at St George's, Sheild then spent three years from 1881 in Cambridge, simultaneously as a house-surgeon at Addenbrooke's Hospital and an undergraduate at Downing College;[1] during this period he qualified as a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1883.
[2] After leaving Cambridge Sheild held posts at St George's as anaesthetist and Westminster Hospital, culminating in a seven-year period at Charing Cross Hospital where he was assistant surgeon, aural surgeon, demonstrator of anatomy and lecturer in practical surgery.
He retired to Budleigh Salterton and during the First World War was sufficiently recovered to be able to provide surgical services at the nearby military hospital at Exmouth.