Marcus Setchell


Sir Marcus Edward Setchell, is a leading British obstetrician and gynaecologist and the former Surgeon-Gynaecologist to Queen Elizabeth II's Royal Household.

Career

Educated at Felsted School and Cambridge University. After training at Gonville and Caius College Cambridge University and St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, Setchell specialised in obstetrics and gynaecology.
In 1975 he became the consultant gynaecologist and obstetrician at St Bartholomew's Hospital, and also at Homerton Hospital following its opening in 1986, holding both positions until 2000. He was a consultant at: Whittington Hospital ; King Edward VII Hospital for Officers; director of the Fertility Unit at the Portland Hospital : med director of the Homerton Hospital ; a consultant at The London Clinic. His last position before retirement from the National Health Service in 2008 was as consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at the Whittington Hospital, London.
Setchell was a council member of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists from 1994 to 2000. A council Member of King Edward VII Hospital, and a trustee of the charity Wellbeing of Women, he was made Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in 2005.

Surgeon-Gynaecologist to the Royal Household

Having replaced Sir George Pinker in 1990, Setchell served as Surgeon-Gynaecologist to Queen Elizabeth II. Setchell delivered Lady Louise Windsor at Frimley Park Hospital, the first royal child to be delivered at an NHS hospital, and Viscount Severn. He also cared for their mother, the Countess of Wessex, after her ectopic pregnancy in 2001 and assisted with the Duchess of Cornwall's hysterectomy. In December 2012, he attended Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, in her pregnancy. He delivered her son, Prince George of Cambridge, in July 2013 at the Lindo Wing of St. Mary's Hospital in Paddington.
In 2008 Alan Farthing was appointed to assist and to succeed Setchell as the Queen's Surgeon-Gynaecologist, a position he retired from at the end of 2013. He was appointed Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in the 2014 New Year Honours.
Setchell, who had by then retired, was not present for the also much-awaited birth in May 2015 of Princess Charlotte of Cambridge, Prince George's younger sibling, who was delivered by Messrs. Farthing and Thorpe-Beeston, and who, due to the passage of remodeled primogeniture and succession laws, remains fourth in line to the throne after Prince George despite the birth of a younger brother in 2018.

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