George Carpenter

George Alfred Carpenter (1859–1910) was an English physician and paediatrician. Carpenter syndrome is named for him. Life Born at Lambeth, on 25 December 1859, he was son of John William Carpenter, M.D. (d. 1903), and his wife Mary, daughter of George Butler, of New Shoreham, Sussex. Alfred John Carpenter of Croydon was his uncle. Carpenter received his early education at King's College School and at Epsom College. He was a medical student in London at St. Thomas's Hospital, where he won prizes, and at Guy's Hospital. He was prosector to the Royal College of Surgeons, and in 1885 became M.R.C.S. and L.S.A. In 1886 he graduated M.B. and in 1890 M.D. at London, having become M.R.C.P., London, in 1889. Carpenter at first was an alienist. After holding a residential appointment at The Coppice, Nottingham, a private asylum, he returned to London in 1885, and began to specialise in children's diseases. Having served as house surgeon, registrar and chloroformist, he was elected physician to the Evelina Hospital, Southwark.