John Henry Bryant

1867-1906

Vol IV

Pg 426

b.4 June 1867 d.31 May 1906

MD Lond MRCS(1890) FRCP(1901)

This biography is part of a series of historical obituaries, originally published in print. As products of their time periods, some biographies contain language which is inappropriate and offensive and present biased accounts of physicians’ lives and work that do not disclose unethical and discriminatory behaviour. As an establishment organisation, the RCP, its members, and the way they are written about, have often reflected societal power structures that favour dominant groups. We aim to redress these biases through ongoing work.

Below is the biography as originally published in 1955.

J. H. Bryant was born at Ilminster, the eldest son of William Mead Bryant. He was educated at Ilminster Grammar School and Sherborne, before becoming a student at Guy’s where in a brilliant career he won the Beaney prize and the Treasurer’s gold medals for medicine and surgery in 1891, a year after qualifying as M.R.C.S. Progress through the usual junior appointments led to his election as assistant physician in 1898, demonstrator of morbid anatomy in 1899 and lecturer on materia medica in 1906. Bryant was a painstaking teacher and a man of strong personality, as well as a rugby player of county standard and a fast sprinter. His wife, by whom he had one son and two daughters, was Stella Beatrice Fry. He died at Walmer, Kent.

G H Brown

[Lancet, 1906; B.M.J., 1906]

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