Dr Joseph Sampson Gamgee, MRCS, FRSE was a surgeon at the Queen's Hospital in Birmingham, England.
10 Facts About Sampson Gamgee
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Sampson Gamgee pioneered aseptic surgery, and, in 1880 invented Gamgee Tissue, an absorbent cotton wool and gauze surgical dressing.
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Sampson Gamgee was the son of Joseph Gamgee, a veterinary surgeon in Leghorn, Italy, and his wife, Mary Ann West.
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Sampson Gamgee's classmate was Joseph Lister with whom he shared lodgings and considered him a close friend.
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Sampson Gamgee obtained a post as House Surgeon at University College Hospital in London.
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Sampson Gamgee then served as a surgeon in the British-Italian Legion during the Crimean War.
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Sampson Gamgee died of Bright's disease in Birmingham on 18 September 1886.
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Sampson Gamgee gave his name to the hobbit Sam Gamgee in JR R Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.
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Sampson Gamgee married Marion Parker, daughter of an Edgbaston vet, in 1886.
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One son, Leonard Parker Sampson Gamgee became a renowned surgeon of Birmingham and his nephew was Prof Sir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson.