William Newman

William Newman (29 August 1833 – 3 December 1903) was an English surgeon who worked at the Stamford and Rutland Infirmary (now the Stamford and Rutland Hospital) for 40 years and had significant input into the design of the Infirmary's fever wards in the late 1870s.

Biography William Newman in 1893. Photographed by Stamford photographer Mrs E. Higgins. Newman was born in Sheffield on 29 August 1833 the son of Robert Newman. He trained in medicine at St Bartholomew's Hospital in London, later qualifying as an M.D., M.R.C.P. and F.R.C.S. He held surgical positions at the Shrewsbury Hospital, Ancaster and Fulbeck in Lincolnshire. He had significant input into the design of the wards alongside the architect Edward Browning. In 1876 he and Browning led the Infirmary's building committee producing plans for three new fever wards to be built as part of the Infirmary and not as separate hospitals; each block contained a square-shaped five-bed ward with beds around the walls. The wards opened in January 1879.

Selected works

Newman, W. (1881). Surgical cases, mainly from the wards of the Stamford, Rutland & General Infirmary. Lewis.