George Bodington

George Bodington (1799–1882) was a British general practitioner and pulmonary specialist.

Career Bodington was born in 1799 in Calverton, Buckinghamshire. Educated at Magdalen College School, Bodington began an apprenticeship at age 17 under the surgeon Mr Sayer in Atherstone. A year later Bodington undertook a second apprenticeship under the surgeon Mr Wheelstone in the City of London. and he became disenheartened with his work.

In 1843, Bodington obtained his medical degree from the University of Erlangen–Nuremberg. The couple had six children, the eldest of whom was George Fowler Bodington, a physician who specialised in mental disorders. The grandfather of the lawyer and writer Oliver Bodington and the Canadian radio announcer Maurice Bodington, Bodington was the great-grandfather of the journalist and intelligence officer Nicolas Bodington and the father-in-law of the writer Alice Bodington.

Bodington died on 5 February 1882 at Rocksall House, Sutton Coldfield.

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