John Green Crosse

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John Green Crosse MD, Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (FRCS), Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) was born on 6 September 1790 in Suffolk, the son of a farmer by the name of William, of Boyton Hall, Great Finborough. He was a well known surgeon of his day at the old Norfolk and Norwich Hospital.

He died on 9 June 1850 and is buried in the cloisters of Norwich Cathedral.

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• V. Mary Crosse A Surgeon in the Early Nineteenth Century - The Life and Times of John Green Crosse (E&S Livingstone, London, 1968)
• Royal Society and J G Crosse
• Portrait of J G Crosse at National Portrait Gallery