CHEYNE, SIR WILLIAM WATSON, 1ST BART. (1852— 1932), British surgeon, was born in the Shetland islands on Dec. 14, 1852, and was educated at Edinburgh, where he took his de grees in surgery and medicine in 1875. He also studied at Vienna, Paris and Strasbourg. In 188o he was appointed to the chair of surgery at King's college, London, and from 1888 to 1890 was Hunterian professor of surgery at the royal college of surgeons. From 190o to 1901 he was consulting surgeon to the South African forces. In 1914 he became consulting surgeon to the royal navy; he accompanied the British forces to Gallipoli, subsequently be coming surgeon-rear-admiral. He was created a baronet in 1908, and in 1916 received the K.C.M.G. In 1919 he was appointed lord lieutenant of Orkney and Shetland.
His published works include Antiseptic Surgery (1882) ; The Anti septic Treatment of Wounds (1885) ; Lectures on Suppuration and Septic Disease (1889) ; Objects and Limits of Operations for Cancer (1896) ; Manual of Surgical Treatment (7 vols. 1899-1903) ; besides various papers on the treatment of wounds in war.