IN 1878 the Board of Medical Studies addressed a communication to the Studies Syndicate unanimously recommending the establishment of a professorship of surgery, but this did not have any effect until 1883 when this recommendation was repeated and Humphry volunteered to take the chair without any stipend (vide p. 72). The chair was established by Grace of May 10, 1883, and Humphry was elected on June 20. After his death in 1896 the professorship was suspended until it was re-established by Grace of the Senate, June 18, 1903, when Howard Marsh was appointed with a stipend of £600 a year; he held it until his death in 1915. No further appointment to the chair was made, and it was discontinued by Grace of June 4, 1921.

REFERENCE

Clark, J. W. Emoluments of the University of Cambridge, p. 250, Cambridge, 1904.

FREDERICK HOWARD MARSH (1839–1915)

Professor of Surgery 1903–1915

Frederick Howard Marsh was born on March 7, 1839, as the third child and second son of Edward Brunning Marsh, a farmer of Homersfield, on the Waveney, Suffolk, and Maria Haward of Brook, near Norwich. Originally called Haward, he changed this to Howard. In 1856 he was apprenticed to his uncle John Marsh, a practitioner in St John Street, Clerkenwell, and in October 1858 entered the Medical School of St Bartholomew's Hospital.