Sir Rickman Godlee, 1st Baronet

Sir Rickman John Godlee, 1st Baronet (15 February 1849-18 April 1925), was an English surgeon.

Godlee was born in London to a Quaker family. In 1884 he became the first to remove a tumour of the brain surgically. A nephew of Joseph Lister, and his biographer, he was appointed surgeon (1885) and professor (1892) at University College Hospital, London. He was President of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1911, 1912 & 1913. He died aged 76 at Whitchurch, Berkshire on 18 April 1925.

Publications

 * ‘The Past Present and Future of the School for Advanced Medical Studies of University College London’, John Bale Sons and Danielsson, London, 1907
 * 'Lord Lister', Macmillan & Co, London, 1917
 * ‘A Village on the Thames: Whitchurch, Yesterday and To-day’, George Allen & Unwin, London, 1926