Joseph Warner

Joseph Warner (1717–1801) was a British surgeon and plantation owner in Dominica. He was the first to tie the common carotid artery, an operation he performed in 1775. Life He was the eldest son of Ashton Warner (1691–1752) of Antigua. He was sent to England young, and was educated for six or seven years at Westminster School. Warner was apprenticed for seven years to Samuel Sharp, surgeon to Guy's Hospital, on 3 December 1734. He passed his examination for the great diploma of the Barber-Surgeons' Company on 1 December 1741; and on 2 March 1742 he paid the fee of £10 and took the livery of the company. At this period Warner was acting with Sharp as joint lecturer on anatomy at Guy's Hospital. He volunteered to accompany the Duke of Cumberland in suppressing the 1745 Jacobite rebellion; and he was elected surgeon to Guy's Hospital, in succession to Pierce, on 22 February 1746, a post he resigned on 30 June 1780. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society on 6 December 1750, and on 5 April 1764 he was chosen a member of the court of assistants of the Corporation of Surgeons. He became a member of its court of examiners on 6 August 1771, and he served as its master in 1780 and in 1784.