Gerald Horner

Norman Gerald Horner (1 January 1882 – 7 March 1954) was a physician, surgeon, and medical editor.

Biography After education at Tonbridge School, N. Gerald Horner matriculated in October 1899 at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, graduating there B.A. in 1902, M.B. and B.Chir. in 1910, M.A. in 1919, and M.D in 1922. At St Bartholomew's Hospital, he qualified M.R.C.S. and L.R.C.P. in 1906. After qualification, he was, for a brief time, a house surgeon at the Westminster Hospital and then was appointed a house physician to St Bartholomew's Hospital.

He edited the St. Bartholomew’s Hospital Journal, and subsequently wrote for the Hospital, edited by Sir Henry Burdett, to whom Horner was eventually assistant. He combined these literary activities with interludes of general practice and clinical assistantships at Bart’s and at the Children’s Hospital in Shadwell.

Family His father had been a surgeon and naturalist on two Arctic expeditions before settling down to general practice in Tonbridge, where he was medical officer at Tonbridge School. was the surgeon and naturalist on the Northwest Passage expedition of the Pandora in 1875. He was a noted coleopterist and a Fellow of the Entomological Society.

In 1911 in Kensington, London, N. Gerald Horner married Grace Malleson Fearon (1891–1950). They had one son.