Frederic Carpenter Skey

Frederic Carpenter Skey (1 December 1798 – 15 August 1872) was an English surgeon.

He was the second of six children of George Skey, a Russian merchant in London, and was born at Upton-on-Severn on 1 December 1798. He was educated chiefly at the private school of Michael Maurice, father of Frederick Denison Maurice, whose friendship he retained until his death. After a short stay at Plymouth with his cousin, Dr. Joseph Skey, then inspector-general of army hospitals, Skey began his medical education at Edinburgh, and then spent a few months in Paris. He was apprenticed to John Abernethy on 15 April 1816.

After studying at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, Skey was admitted a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England on 5 April 1822. While he was an apprentice, Skey was entrusted with the care of some private patients. By Abernethy's interest he was appointed demonstrator of anatomy at St. Bartholomew's Hospital about 1826, an office he resigned after Abernethy's death in 1831, in consequence of a dispute with Sir William Lawrence.

An outcome of Skey's separation from the teaching staff of St. Bartholomew's Hospital was the revival of the Aldersgate Street school of medicine. In the hands of James Hope, Robert Bentley Todd, Marshall Hall, and Jonathan Pereira, it became known as a private teaching establishment, and for many years rivalled the neighbouring school of St. Bartholomew's Hospital. Skey taught surgery in the Aldersgate Street school for ten years, though he was elected an assistant-surgeon to St. Bartholomew's Hospital on 29 August 1827, and consulting surgeon to the London Charterhouse in the same year.

Skey was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1837, and he was appointed to lecture on anatomy in the medical school of St. Bartholomew's Hospital in 1843, an office he resigned in 1865. He became full surgeon to the hospital in May 1854, but in consequence of a new rule calling on members of the staff to retire on attaining the age of 65, he relinquished the post on 18 January 1864. He was then elected consulting surgeon, and was presented with a testimonial.

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