Dr Isaac Burney Yeo

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Isaac Burney Yeo was baptised at Devonport in 1835 to parents John Yeo and Sarah Thomas. He qualified as a doctor and subsequently specialised in respiratory medicine, working at two London teaching hospitals.

Isaac married Winifred Helen Spyers at Weybridge, Surrey in 1897; no children are recorded from this marriage.

When he died in 1914, Dr Yeo left a substantial amount of money to set up a benevolent fund for doctors and their families. This fund is still in existence, and is administered by the Royal Medical Benevolent Fund.

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