Edward John Tilt

Edward John Tilt (1815–1893) was an English physician and medical writer.

Life He was born at Brighton on 30 January 1815, and received his medical education first at St. George's Hospital and then in Paris, where he graduated M.D. on 15 May 1839. He does not appear to have held any English qualification until he became a member of the Royal College of Physicians of London in 1859.

Tilt acted as travelling physician in the family of Count Pyotr Andreyevich Shuvalov during 1848 to 1850. He settled in London about 1850, devoting himself to midwifery and the diseases of women: he had learned from Joseph Récamier in Paris the use of the speculum in gynaecology. He was then appointed physician-accoucheur to the Farringdon general dispensary and lying-in charity. He was one of the original fellows of the Obstetrical Society of London, where he took on subordinate posts, and was elected president for 1874–5. It quoted James Ranald Martin, Joseph Fayrer, and statistics of Duncan Stewart who taught midwifery in Calcutta.