Richard Quain (English surgeon)

When Bell resigned this post, Richard Quain was appointed professor of descriptive anatomy in 1832, Erasmus Wilson, Thomas Morton, Viner Ellis, and John Marshall successively acting as his demonstrators.

From 1870 to 1876 he represented the Royal College of Surgeons of England in the General Council of Education and Registration, and at the time of his death was one of Queen Victoria's surgeons-extraordinary.

He had the interest of the profession strongly at heart, and constantly insisted upon the necessity of a preliminary liberal education for all its members.

His character, however, was marred by the violence of his party feelings, his jealousy, and the readiness with which he imputed improper motives to all who differed from him.

Besides editing his brother's Elements of Anatomy in 1848, Quain published: A life-size half-length in oils, painted by George Richmond, R.A., is in the secretary's office at the Royal College of Surgeons in England.