author
Furneaux Jordan
1830–1911
A Victorian surgeon and medical writer, he built a strong reputation in Birmingham for clear, practical teaching and bold surgical thinking. He also wrote beyond medicine, showing a wide curiosity about history and human character.
1 Audiobook
Body, Parentage and Character in History: Notes on the Tudor Period
by Furneaux Jordan
About the author
Born in 1830, Furneaux Jordan was an English surgeon who became closely associated with Birmingham medicine. Records from the Royal College of Surgeons describe him as Thomas Furneaux Jordan and note his life dates as 1830–1911, while Wellcome catalogues him as John Furneaux Jordan, reflecting a variation found in historical sources.
He was known as a surgeon, teacher, and author. Contemporary obituaries and library records connect him with Birmingham and with a substantial body of medical writing, including works on clinical surgery, surgical inflammation, and shock. His name remained attached to a surgical procedure known as Furneaux Jordan's amputation at the hip-joint, showing the influence his work had on later medical practice.
Jordan also wrote outside his professional field. Among his later books was Body, Parentage and Character in History: Notes on the Tudor Period, which suggests a writer interested not only in surgery but also in history and ideas about human nature. He died in 1911, remembered as a prominent figure in British surgery of the Victorian era.