Dr Lawson Cape

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

Born on 6 December 1807, his father was J. Cape of Ulldale in Cumberland. He was educated at St. Bartholomew's Hospital (1827) and Edinburgh University (M.D., 1833). He was a Licenciate of the R.C.P. 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.

Dr Lawson Cape died at 28, Curzon Street, on 22 March 1877.

Photographed by Camille Silvy of London on 20 October 1860.