A Prophet in His Own Country - A Biography of Henry Lilley Smith, MRCS, (1788-1859), Surgeon, of Southam, Warwickshire

Henry Lilley Smith (1788-1859) was born and bred in Southam, Warwickshire. After an apprenticeship to a surgeon-apothecary, he attended Guy’s Hospital (where he was a ‘surgical dresser’ to the distinguished Guy’s surgeon Sir Astley Cooper).