Appointments and Honours conferred upon Sir John Simon, K.C.B., in his life-time 1838 - Elected Member of the Royal College of Surgeons. 1838 - Became demonstrator of Anatomy at King's College Hospital, London. 1840 - Senior Assistant-Surgeon of King's College Hospital. 1844 - Elected Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons. 1844 - Won the first Astley-Cooper prize. 1845 - Elected Fellow of the Royal Society. 1847 - Nominated lecturer in Pathology and Surgeon at St. Thomas' Hospital, London. 1848 - Appointed Officer of Health to the City of London. 1853 - Member of Royal Commission of Inquiry into the causes of Cholera at Newcastle-on-Tyne. 1854 - Member of Sir Benjamin Hall's Medical Council. 1857 - Vice-President of the Medico-Chirurgical and Clinical Societies. 1857 - President of the Medical Teachers' Association. 1857 - President of the Pathological Society. 1859 - Medical Officer to the Privy Council. 1868 - On the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons. 1868 - Elected Hon. D.C.L. of the University of Oxford. 1872 - Elected Hon. Med.-Chir. Doctor of the University of Munich. 1876 - Awarded C.B., - Companion of the Bath. 1876 - Crown Member of the General Medical Council. 1876/1878 - Vice-President of the Royal College of Surgeons. 1878/1879 - President of the Royal College of Surgeons. 1879/1880 - One of the Vice-Presidents of the Royal Society. 1880 - Elected Hon. LL. D. of the University of Cambridge. 1881 - Member of the Royal Commission of Enquiry as to the Constitution of the Medical Profession. 1882 - Elected Hon. LL. D. of the University of Edinburgh. 1887 - Awarded K.C.B., - Knight Commander of the Bath. 1887 - Elected Hon. LL. D. of the University of Dublin. 1896 - Was amongst the first four recipients of the Harben Medal of the Royal Institute of Public Health, the others were, Lord Playfair, Lord Lister and Professor Pettenkoffer of Germany. 1897 - Awarded the Buchanan Medal of the Royal Society. Compiled by Charles George Simon (1880 - 1956) at Stansted, Essex, 1943. |