Life
He was born at Clovelly near Bideford, Devon, England in 1811 into a family with a long association with the British East India Company, originally of Huguenot stock.
He trained at University College Hospital, London and went on to be a house surgeon at the Middlesex Hospital where he remained for the rest of his career. He was actively involved in the Middlesex Hospital Medical School from its foundation in 1835 and was a close associate of its founder, Sir Charles Bell.
In 1841 he became a lecturer in forensic medicine and in 1845 professor of anatomy. In 1861, on the basis of a paper on the structure and development of bone, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.
He also pursued an interest in the arts. He was a talented musician who studied the science of music, and was a gifted caricaturist.
His death in 1876 was caused by his sitting up throughout the night of 6 April at the bedside of his close friend, the artist John Graham Lough. Lough was critically ill with pneumonia and died the following morning. De Morgan himself then developed pneumonia and pleurisy from which he himself died on 12 April.
He was married to Kate Hudson and they had two sons Walter and John.
A bust of Campbell De Morgan by John Graham Lough is located at the Middlesex Hospital, London.
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