Thomas Chevalier

Thomas Chevalier (1767–1824) was a surgeon, writer, and translator of Pascal. He was born in London in a family of French Protestants. He became a member of the London Company of Surgeons in the 1790s, receiving an appointment as surgeon to the Westminster Dispensary around 1800. Among his publications are Introduction to a Course of Lectures on the Operations of Surgery (1801) and A Treatise on Gunshot Wounds (1804). He was a frequent lecturer at the College of Surgeons, and professor of anatomy surgery in the 1820s. Chevalier was also a deacon in the Baptist church in Keppel Street, and among his other publications are translations into English of Pascal’s Thoughts (1803) and Bossuet’s Universal History (1810), and the Introduction to Samuel Bagster’s Polyglot Bible. His last work was Remarks on Suicide (1824).