Joseph Warner of Hatton Street

Founded in 1800 as The Royal College of Surgeons in London, later of England. Its antecdents go back to the Fellowship of Surgeons, which was already over a century old when it was awarded a 'cognizance' (similar to a coat of arms) in 1492.

The first member of the Royal College of Surgeons and member of the College's court of assistants 1800-1801. D'A. Power, ‘Warner, Joseph (1717–1801)’, rev. Michael Bevan, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/28762, accessed 14 Dec 2015]