Richard Dugard Grainger

Richard Dugard Grainger FRCS FRS (1801 – 1 February 1865) was an English surgeon, anatomist and physiologist.

Grainger was born in Birmingham, the son of a surgeon, and educated at a grammar school.

He ran the private Webb Street anatomy school for twenty years before joining St Thomas's Hospital as a lecturer from 1842 to 1860.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and delivered their Hunterian oration in 1848.

The Author of Observations on the Structure & Functions of the Spinal Cord, &c. Distinguished for his acquaintance with the science of physiology.