Dr Lawson Cape
(1807-1877)
20 October 1860

Volume 2, page 46, sitting number 1482.

[Identified as 'Dr Cape' in the Silvy daybooks, this is probably Dr Lawson Cape.]

Born on 6 December 1807, his father was John Cape of Ulldale in Cumberland, although Lawson was baptised at St Mary's in Putney on 11 April 1808. He was educated at St Bartholomew's hospital (1827) and Edinburgh University (MD, 1833). He was a Licenciate of the Royal College of Physicians from 1835, and a Fellow from 1857.

From 1836 to 1846 he was physician to the Royal Infirmary for children on Waterloo Bridge Road, and from 1837, also physician to the general lying-in hospital on York Road, Lambeth. From 1837 to 1848, he lectured on midwifery at St Thomas's Hospital.

Doctor Lawson Cape died at 28 Curzon Street on 22 March 1877, leaving an estate valued at £70,000.