Cecil Yates Biss (1845 - 1912)

Born 1845 in Calcutta, West Bengal, India

Ancestors

Husband of Janet Jones — married 1869 in Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand

Died 20 Jan 1912 at about age 67 in London, England

Notes

1871 - Cambridge University England

1881 - Lewisham Kent

1889 - Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians

Doctor in Harley Street London

adherent of the Plymouth Bretheren

Royal College of Physicians - Munks Roll vol:iv

Cecil Biss was a New Zealander and began his career as a teacher before his arrival in England in 1872. He then won a scholarship to Downing College, Cambridge, where he was awarded the Winchester University prize and took first-class honours in the natural sciences tripos of 1875. He completed his medical training at St. Bartholomew’s, graduating as M.B. in 1880, and was then elected assistant physician to the Metropolitan Free Hospital and physician to the Westminster General Dispensary. His principal appointments were at the Brompton Hospital, where he was firstly assistant physician and then physician, and at the Middlesex Hospital, where he was physician to outpatients for seventeen years and lectured on botany and on pharmacology and therapeutics. His career was cruelly brought to an end by an attack of hemiplegia some twelve years before his death, and his last years were saddened further by the loss of his wife and one of his sons. Biss, who was a Plymouth Brother and a teetotaller, died at St. John’s Wood, London.

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