Sir Benjamin Fonseca Outram KCB (1774 – 16 February 1856) was an English naval surgeon and physician.
[1] The son of Captain William Outram, he was born in Kilham, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, and educated as a surgeon at the United Borough hospitals in London.
He was surgeon in HMS Superb in the second battle of Algeciras, where Sir James Saumarez obtained a victory over the French and Spanish fleets on 12 July 1801.
[3] In 1806, with a view to private practice, Outram went to Edinburgh, and there graduated doctor of medicine on 24 June 1809.
He was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) on 17 September 1850, and was admitted a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians on 9 July 1852.