Everard Home

Sir Everard Home ( born May 6, 1756 in Kingston upon Hull, † August 31 1832 in London) was a British physician and member of the Royal Society.

Home attended the Westminster School. He subsequently received a scholarship while at Trinity College, University of Cambridge, but then decided to take an apprenticeship at his brother John Hunter, at St. George 's Hospital in London. He assisted Hunter in numerous studies on the anatomy and in the fall of 1776, he described parts of the anatomical collection.

After his approbation Home worked in the Naval Hospital in Plymouth in 1787 and returned to the St. George's Hospital in London back. There he rose to the first surgeon to ( according to current nomenclature director of the surgical clinic ) and was physician to the king.

Home is the first to describe the ichthyosaurs. In his anatomical studies of the fossil he found that the animal was hatching its eggs in the womb. Home also published about human anatomy.

1787 Home member of the Royal Society, in 1807 he received the Copley Medal.