Robert James Nicholl Streeten FLS (born 28 June 1800, London – 10 May 1849, Worcester) was a British physician and medical editor and secretary of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association.
At Edinburgh he became clinical clerk to the physician and botanist Robert Graham (whom he accompanied on a walking tour to the Highlands).
[4] He took an active part in the formation of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association, and contributed numerous papers to the 'Midland Medical and Surgical Reporter,' and to its successor the 'Provincial Medical and Surgical Journal,' published under the auspices of the Association, of which in 1843 he became Secretary, and soon after took upon himself the duties of responsible editor of the Journal.
'[4]Streeten was the editor-in-chief of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Journal from 1844 until his death in 1849.
[5] With her mother at her bedside, Emily Sherwood Streeten died on 8 October 1833.