- William Guy
William Augustus Guy (
13 June 1810 -10 September 1885 ) was a British physician and medical statistician.He was educated at
Christ's Hospital andGuy's Hospital ; he then studied at theUniversity of Heidelberg and theUniversity of Paris before getting a Bachelor of Medicine degree from theUniversity of Cambridge , 1837.In 1842, he was appointed professor of forensic medicine at
King's College London and assistant physician at King's College Hospital, 1842; he was dean of the faculty of medicine, 1846-58. He also served as Medical Superintendent at Millbank Prison from 1859 to 1869, acting as a semi-official government advisor on prison health, diet and hygiene.He edited the
Journal of the Statistical Society of London (now theRoyal Statistical Society ), 1852-6 and was its president, 1873-5. The Society still presents theGuy Medal s (in gold, silver and bronze) in his memory.He was vice-president of the
Royal Society , 1876-7, and Croonian (1861), Lumleian (1868), and Harveian (1875) lecturer at theRoyal College of Physicians .He was a founder of the Health of Towns Association and a member of the Commission on Penal Servitude and Criminal Lunacy. He published two books - "Principles of Forensic Medicine" (1844) and "Public Health" (1870-4) - and many statistical papers.
References
*
Dictionary of National Biography
* OxfordDictionary of National Biography Obituaries
* Journal of the Statistical Society of London, Vol. 48, No. 4 (Dec., 1885), pp. 650-651
* The Lancet (19 Sept 1885)External links
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