Edward Latham Ormerod, FRS, MD (27 August 1819 – 18 March 1873) was an English physician and amateur entomologist. He was born in London, the seventh of ten children of

George Ormerod George Ormerod (20 October 1785 – 9 October 1873) was an English antiquary and historian. Among his writings was a major county history of Cheshire, in North West England. Biography George Ormerod was born in Manchester and educated first ...

, the Cheshire historian and his wife Sarah Latham, eldest daughter of the physician, John Latham. His younger sister was

Eleanor Anne Ormerod Eleanor Anne Ormerod (11 May 182819 July 1901) was a pioneer English entomologist. Based on her studies in agriculture, she became one of the first to define the field of agricultural entomology. She published an influential series of articles on ...

. He was educated at

Rugby School Rugby School is a Public school (United Kingdom), private boarding school for pupils aged 13–18, located in the town of Rugby, Warwickshire in England. Founded in 1567 as a free grammar school for local boys, it is one of the oldest independ ...

until 1838, was a student at

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, London until October 1841, and then went up to

Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge Gonville and Caius College, commonly known as Caius ( ), is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1348 by Edmund Gonville, it is the fourth-oldest of the University of Cambridge's 31 colleges and ...

. There he was awarded a classical scholarship, and afterwards scholarships in anatomy and chemistry and graduated M.B. in 1846 and M.D. in 1851. He returned to St Bartholomew's in 1846 to work in the post-mortem room as a demonstrator until health problems obliged him to move to Brighton in 1847 to practise as a physician. He was elected a fellow of the

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and in 1851 delivered their

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on the subject of "Valvular disease of the heart". In 1853 he was appointed physician to the

Sussex County Hospital The Royal Sussex County Hospital is an acute teaching hospital in Brighton, England. Together with the Princess Royal Hospital, Haywards Heath, Princess Royal Hospital, it is administered by the University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust. T ...

. During this time he published a number of papers on medicine and natural history. His publication of ''British Social Wasps'' in 1868 secured his election as a

Fellow of the Royal Society Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS, ForMemRS and HonFRS) is an award granted by the Fellows of the Royal Society of London to individuals who have made a "substantial contribution to the improvement of natural science, natural knowledge, incl ...

on 6 June 1872. He died in 1873 of disease of the bladder. He had married in 1853 Mary Olivia Porter, who died later the same year and in 1856 Maria Millett, with whom he had six children. One of his sons was the physician Sir Arthur Latham Ormerod, Oxford's first Medical Officer for Health.

Works

* ''Clinical Observations on Continued Fever, 1848 * ''On Fatty degeneration of the Heart'', 1849 * ''On non-rheumatic Pericarditis'', 1853 * ''Degeneration of the Bones'', in St Bartholomew's Hospital Reports, vols vi. and vii. * ''Pathology of Fatty Degeneration'', St Bartholomew's Hospital Reports, vol. iv, 1868 * ''The Natural History of British Social Wasps'', 8vo 1868

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Ormerod, Edward Latham 1819 births Medical doctors from London People educated at Rugby School Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge 19th-century English medical doctors English anatomists Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians Fellows of the Royal Society 1873 deaths