William Shearman

William Shearman (January, 1767 – 21 November 1861), or Sherman, was a British physician and medical writer.

from Edinburgh on 12 September 1807 (with a dissertation on pneumonia), and was admitted as a licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians, London, on 11 April 1808.

He practised for many years in Northampton Square, Clerkenwell, and subsequently, until his death, at 17 Canonbury Villas, Islington.

He died on 21 November 1861 at the age of ninety-four, and was buried on the western side of Highgate Cemetery.

In 1799 he was one of the staff of a periodical called "The New Medical and Physical Journal, or Annals of Medicine, Natural History and Chemistry", and from 1810 to 1812 he was its editor.