John Hulke

Who was John Hulke?

John Whitaker Hulke FRCS FRS FGS was a British surgeon, geologist and fossil collector. He was the son of a physician in Deal, who became a Huxleyite despite being deeply religious.

Hulke became Huxley's colleague at the Royal College of Surgeons. He was a long-time collector from the Wealden cliffs of the Isle of Wight, and his work on vertebrate palaeontology included studies of Iguanodon and Hypsilophodon from the Wealden. He became President of the Geological Society; and was awarded Wollaston Medal in 1888. He was President of the Pathological Society of London in 1883, and President of the Royal College of Surgeons from 1893 until his death.