13 Facts About James Sawyer

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

James Sawyer studied Medicine at Queen's College, Birmingham graduating in 1866.

James Sawyer then took a post as a resident physician at Queen's Hospital, Birmingham becoming full Physician in 1871.

James Sawyer then took on a secondary role as Physician at Birmingham Children's Hospital.

James Sawyer became Professor of Medicine in 1885.

James Sawyer was knighted by Queen Victoria in the same year.

James Sawyer bought Haseley Hall, at Five Ways, Hatton, Warwickshire, Warwickshire, from Sir Edward Antrobus in 1889 and lived there for the rest of his life.

James Sawyer has a house built in central Birmingham, in 1902, on Cornwall Street, by the architects T W F Newton and Cheattle, in Arts and Crafts style.

James Sawyer's proposers were George Alexander Gibson, William Smith Greenfield, Sir Byrom Bramwell, and Alexander Bruce.

James Sawyer retired in 1891 but delivered the Lumleian Lecture to the Royal College of Physicians in 1908.

James Sawyer was President of the Birmingham Conservative Association and the Warwickshire Chamber of Agriculture in 1902.

In 1900, Sawyer argued that the increased rate of cancer in England and Wales was due to the excessive consumption of red meat.

James Sawyer suggested in his 1912 book Coprostasis that colorectal cancer was practically unknown amongst agricultural labourers because they worked in fields and had the opportunity to defaecate in the natural squatting position.