Herbert J. Paterson

Herbert John Paterson CBE FRCS (1868 – 21 May 1940) was a British surgeon and gastroenterologist.

Born in Argyllshire, Scotland, he was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating Doctor of Medicine (MD).^[1] He later became senior surgeon at the National Temperance Hospital, honorary surgeon to the King Edward VII Hospital for Officers and Hunterian Professor of Surgery^[2] at the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

During the First World War he was honorary surgeon-in-charge of the Queen Alexandra’s Hospital for Officers in Highgate, for which he was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in January 1920.^[3] He was a champion of nurses and served as medical honorary secretary of the Royal British Nurses' Association.

Paterson married Tempé Faber, daughter of the politician George Henry Faber.

Footnotes

1. "Paterson, Herbert John (PTR886HJ)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
2. "Paterson, Herbert John". Who's Who. 1916. p. 1726.
3. The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 31760. p. 1237. 27 January 1920.

References

• Biography, Who Was Who

Selected works

• Gastric surgery: being the Hunterian Lectures delivered before the Royal College of Surgeons of England on February 19th, 21st and 23rd, 1906.
• The surgery of the stomach: a handbook of diagnosis and treatment (2nd ed.). 1914.