Marmaduke Sheild

Arthur Marmaduke Sheild (1858-1922) was a surgeon, whose career was curtailed by a self-inflicted accident while operating, and a benefactor of Cambridge University, which named its chair in pharmacology in his honour.

Marmaduke Sheild was born in 1858 in Landawke, near Laugharne, Carmarthenshire. In 1875 he began a distinguished student career at St George's Hospital winning the Brackenbury Prize and two William Brown Exhibitions before graduating MRCS in 1879. After starting as a house surgeon at St George's, Sheild then spent three years from 1881 in Cambridge, simultaneously as a house-surgeon at Addenbrooke's Hospital and an undergraduate at Downing College; during this period he qualified as a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1883.

After leaving Cambridge Sheild held posts at St George's as anaesthetist and Westminster Hospital, culminating in a seven-year period at Charing Cross Hospital where he was assistant surgeon, aural surgeon, demonstrator of anatomy and lecturer in practical surgery. In 1893 he returned again to St George's, becoming full surgeon in 1900. While practising as a surgeon he also acted as an examiner for Cambridge University and the Society of Apothecaries.

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