George Vivian Poore

Who was George Vivian Poore?

George Vivian Poore was a British physician.

He was born in Andover, Kent the youngest son of Commander John Poore, RN and educated at the Royal Naval School, New Cross, London and University College, London. In 1866 he was awarded the diploma of M.R.C.S.Eng and served as Medical Officer on board the SS Great Eastern when she laid the first transatlantic telegraph cable later that same year. He returned afterwards to university and graduated MB and BS in 1868 and Doctor of Medicine in 1871. In 1872 he was asked by Queen Victoria to attend the Prince of Wales during a trip to France to recover from typhoid and afterwards to attend her youngest son who suffered from delicate health.

Poore was appointed Assistant Physician and then full Physician at University College Hospital. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1877 and delivered their inaugural Bradshaw Lecture in 1881 entitled Nervous Affections of the Hand. He was later appointed to the Chair of Forensic Medicine at University College.

He was an authority of Sanitation Science and held strong views about the soil's ability to deal with waste.