Edward Henry Sieveking

Life Sieveking was born in Bishopsgate, London. In 1886 Sieveking was knighted by Queen Victoria, and in 1901 King Edward VII appointed him Physician Extraordinary to His Majesty. In 1888, he was censor and Vice-President of the Royal College of Physicians, as well as President of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society, and strongly supported the reforms of 1858.

He died at his home, 17 Manchester Square, London, on 24 February 1904 and was buried on 28 February in Abney Park Cemetery, Stoke Newington.

Writings A Treatise on Ventilation (1846) The Training Institutions for Nurses and the Workhouses (1849) A Manual of Pathological Anatomy, Carl Rokitansky (vol. ii, London, 1849) translated by Sieveking A Manual of the Nervous Diseases of Man, Moritz Heinrich Romberg (2 vols., London, 1853) translated by Sieveking British and Foreign Medico-Chirurgical Review (editor, from 1855) On Epilepsy and Epileptiform Seizures, their Causes, Pathology, and Treatment (London, 1858; 2nd ed. 1861) A Manual of Pathological Anatomy, with Charles Handfield Jones (London, 1854; 2nd ed. 1875) The Medical Adviser in Life Assurance (London, 1874; 2nd ed. 1882)