No Ordinary Surgeon

No Ordinary Surgeon centres around one of our most photographed works of art – the Boudicca group on the Thames Embankment opposite the Houses of Parliament – and is told through the life and times of surgeon William Binley Dickinson (1789–1870), who entered into partnership in Macclesfield, an affluent east Cheshire silk spinning and weaving town.He discovered a gifted boy, Thomas Thornycroft, mi...