Richard Saumerez

Richard Saumarez (1764-1835) was the younger brother of General Sir Thomas Saumarez. After studying at Christ’s Hospital, London, he became a surgeon in 1785, working at Magdalen Hospital, Streatham, from 1788 to 1805, after which he was appointed honorary governor of the hospital.  According to the DNB, he had “a large and lucrative practice in London until 1818,” after which he retired to Bath.  In 1805, Saumarez was working as a surgeon at 30 Canterbury Row, Newington (Holden’s [1805]:1. n.p.)  He published several works of physiognomy that were highly praised by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, among which were A Dissertation on the Universe in General and on the Procession of Physiological and Physical Science (1812).