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George Jforstcr '^iirber, 



M.D., F.R.C.P. 



Obituary from " British Medical Journal.''^ 

 (No. 1626, February 27, 1892.) 



GEORGE EORSTER BURDER was born at Stroud in 

 1824. He was the son of the Rev. John Barder, a 

 Nonconformist minister, and grandson of the Rev. George 

 Burder, also a somewhat noted Nonconformist minister, and 

 the author of Village Sermons^ etc. He received his medical 

 education at University College, London ; in 1850 he obtained 

 the diploma of M.R.C.S. ; in 1851 that of L.S.A., and the 

 degree of M.D. of King's College, Aberdeen ; in 1859 he 

 was made a Member, and in 1875 a Eellow of the Royal 

 College of Physicians. 



He settled in practice in Clifton, and in 1856 was 

 appointed physician to the Bristol General Hospital, a post 

 which he held until 1883, when, after twenty-seven years 

 of active service, he was made consulting physician to the 

 hospital. For twenty-three years he held the Lectureship 

 on Materia Medica and Therapeutic^ at the Bristol Medical 

 School, and for the last seventeen years of this period acted 

 as honorary secretary to the school ; both these positions he 

 resigned in 1879. 



Dr. Burder was President of the Bristol Medico-Chirurgical 

 Society for the session 1884-85, and of the Bath and Bristol 

 Branch of the British Medical Association for the year 1887- 



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