James Sawyer


Sir James Sawyer was a 19th-century British physician.

Life

He was born in Carlisle on 11 August 1844 the son of James Sawyer and his wife Ann Ross.
He studied Medicine at Queen's College, Birmingham graduating in 1866. He then took a post as a resident physician at Queen's Hospital, Birmingham becoming full Physician in 1871. He then also took on a secondary role as Physician at Birmingham Children's Hospital.
In 1875 his alma mater elected him Professor of Pathology and in 1878 he also began lecturing in Materia Medica. He became Professor of Medicine in 1885. He was knighted by Queen Victoria in the same year.
He bought Haseley Hall from Sir Edward Antrobus in 1889 and lived there for the rest of his life.
In 1891 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were George Alexander Gibson, William Smith Greenfield, Sir Byrom Bramwell, and Alexander Bruce.
He retired in 1891 but delivered the Lumleian Lecture to the Royal College of Physicians in 1908. He was President of the Birmingham Conservative Association and the Warwickshire Chamber of Agriculture in 1902.
He died at Haseley Hall in Hatton, Warwickshire on 19 January 1919.

Publications

In 1873 he married Adelaide Mary Hill, daughter of Rev J. Harwood Hill of Cranoe in Leicestershire.
They had two sons and two daughters, one of whom married Dr H S French.