Reginald Southey

Reginald Southey (15 September 1835 – 8 November 1899) was an English physician and inventor of Southey's cannula or tube, a type of trocar used for draining oedema of the limbs.

A graduate of Christ Church, Oxford, he studied medicine at St Bartholomew's Hospital before travelling the world.

On 28 January 1864 Southey married Frances Marianne Thornton at Holy Trinity, Clapham, Surrey.

She was the daughter of Reverend Charles Watson Thornton, prebend of Hereford.

[2] He died on 8 November 1899 aged 64, and was buried at St Mary the Virgin, Sutton Valence, Kent.

Reginald Southey by Lewis Carroll , 1860
"Southey's cannulas" thought to have been owned by Southey himself, at St Bartholomew's Hospital Museum , London