| Samuel Hoppus Adams | |
| Birth Date: | 1835 |
| Birth Place: | Yardley Hastings, England |
| Death Date: | 1 March 1895 |
| Nationality: | British |
Samuel Hoppus Adams (1835-1895) was a British surgeon, physician and botanist.[1] [2] [3] [4]
Adams was born in Yardley Hastings in 1835 and christened on 21 June 1835.[5] He was educated at Bedford Modern School and matriculated at University College London where he achieved a gold medal in Structural and Physiological Botany.[1] [6] [7] He became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1858, and subsequently studied medicine and graduated MB (first division) in 1859,[7] [8] and MD in 1861.[1] [9] [10] [11]
After graduating, Adams served as a surgeon for The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company.[1] During his time there he suffered extreme sunstroke on the Red Sea.[1] He later settled in Bedford where he initially practised in partnership and then independently.[1] He was surgeon to the Bedford Provident Dispensary.[1] [12] In terms of his medical service in Bedford it was commented that:[1]
In the field of botany, he gave informal tuition to William Hillhouse, Edward Mann Langley and Joseph Reynolds Green, which helped all three to obtain scholarships to Trinity College, Cambridge.[13]
Adams married Caroline England in London in 1880; they had three children.[1] [5] He died in Bedford on 1 March 1895 and was buried in accordance with the rites of the Moravian Church.[1] His obituary in the British Medical Journal stated that:[1]