Cross, Francis Richardson
- First name(s)
- Francis Richardson
- Surname
- Cross
- Position(s) held at King's College London
- House Surgeon at King's College Hospital, 1871-1872
- Medical Tutor, 1875-1878 Ref: *1
- Sub-Dean of Medical Department, 1875-1878 Ref: *1
- Evening Class Lecturer on Physiology, 1877-1878 Ref: *2 *3
Education & professional details
- School, college and/or university attended
- Crewkerne Grammar School
- King's College London, Medical Department (1866-)
- Qualifications
- MB (1879)
- FRCS (1878)
- LL.D
- JP
- Position(s) held (non King's College London)
- Clinical Assistant, Moorfields Eye Hospital (1875-)
- Lecturer on Descriptive and Surgical Anatomy Bristol Medical School, (1878-1887)
- Lecturer in Opthamology, Bristol Medical School (1900-1927)
- Reader in Opthalmology, Bristol Medical School
- Assistant Surgeon, Bristol Royal Infirmary
- Surgeon, Bristol Eye Hospital
- President, Royal School for the Blind
- Consulting Surgeon, Bristol Royal Infirmary
- High Sheriff of Bristol (1898) Ref: *2
- Professional activities
- Council Member, Royal College of Surgeons (-1914)
- Council Member, Clifton College
- President of the Opthalmological Society of the United Kingdom (1914)
- Vice-President, Opthalmological Section of the International Medical Congress, London (1913)
- Consulting Surgeon, Bristol Eye Hospital Ref: *2
Personal details
- Date of birth
- 1848
- Date of death
- Died Worcester House, Clifton
- Place of death
- 12 July 1931
References
- F. R. Cross, Job Application, Secretary’s In-Correspondence, KA/IC/C85, King’s College London Archives
- 2.H. Willoughby Lyle, King’s and Some King’s Men (Oxford and London: Oxford University Press and Humphrey Milford, 1935), 145-147
- Secretary’s In-Correspondence, KA/IC/C89, King's College London Archives
Portrait: Francis Richardson Cross, MB, FRCS, LLD by Beatrice Bright (1861–1940), oil on canvas, 1920. © All rights reserved University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust