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Darwin Correspondence Project

Charles Paget Hooker

1855–1933

Physician and surgeon. Third child of Frances Harriet and Joseph Dalton Hooker. Trained at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London; made a licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians of London and the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, 1879, before being appointed to the staff of the Hertfordshire General Infirmary. Cottishall Cottage Hospital, Norfolk, 1880–5; Cirencester Cottage Hospital, Gloucestershire, 1885–1912.

Sources

Allan 1967

Medical directory 1881–1933

Medical who’s who 1914

Bibliography

Allan, Mea. 1967. The Hookers of Kew, 1785–1911. London: Michael Joseph.

Medical directory: The London medical directory … every physician, surgeon, and general practitioner resident in London. London: C. Mitchell. 1845. The London and provincial medical directory. London: John Churchill. 1848–60. The London & provincial medical directory, inclusive of the medical directory for Scotland, and the medical directory for Ireland, and general medical register. London: John Churchill. 1861–9. The medical directory … including the London and provincial medical directory, the medical directory for Scotland, the medical directory for Ireland. London: J. & A. Churchill. 1870–1905.

Medical who’s who: The medical who’s who. London: London & Counties Press Association [and others]. 1913–27.

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