Marmaduke Sheild

Arthur Marmaduke Sheild (1858–1922) was a surgeon, whose career was curtailed by an accidental, self-inflicted injury while operating, and a benefactor of Cambridge University, which named its chair in pharmacology in his honour.

Education Marmaduke Sheild was born in 1858 in Landawke, near Laugharne, Carmarthenshire. In 1875, he began a distinguished student career at St George's Hospital winning the Brackenbury Prize and two William Brown Exhibitions before graduating MRCS in 1879. After starting as a house surgeon at St George's, Sheild then spent three years from 1881 in Cambridge, simultaneously as a house-surgeon at Addenbrooke's Hospital and an undergraduate at Downing College; during this period he qualified as a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1883.

Surgical career After leaving Cambridge Sheild held posts at St George's as anaesthetist and Westminster Hospital, culminating in a seven-year period at Charing Cross Hospital where he was assistant surgeon, aural surgeon, demonstrator of anatomy and lecturer in practical surgery. In 1893 he returned again to St George's, becoming full surgeon in 1900. While practising as a surgeon he also acted as an examiner for Cambridge University and the Society of Apothecaries. In 1946 Cambridge University honoured Sheild by naming its newly established chair in pharmacology in his name.

Publications Surgical Anatomy for Students, 1891 Diseases of the Ear, 1895 Transactions of the Dermatological Society of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume V. 1895, republished 2008 A Clinical Treatise on Diseases of the Breast, 1898 Lectures on Nasal Obstruction, 1900 Surgical Lectures and Essays, 1903 List of articles by Marmaduke Sheild