Editing Joseph Lister (section)

===School===
As a child, Lister had a stammer and this was possibly why he was educated at home until he was eleven.{{sfn|Lawrence|2004}} Lister then attended Isaac Brown and Benjamin Abbott's Academy, a private{{sfn|Godlee|1924|p=16}} Quaker school in [[Hitchin]], [[Hertfordshire]].{{sfn|Godlee|1924|pp=12–15}} When Lister was thirteen,{{sfn|Lawrence|2004}} he attended [[Grove House School]] in [[Tottenham]], also a private Quaker School{{sfn|Godlee|1924|pp=12–15}} to study mathematics, natural science, and languages. His father was insistent that Lister received a good grounding in French and German, in the knowledge he would learn Latin at school.{{sfn|Godlee|1924|p=2}} From an early age, Lister was strongly encouraged by his father{{sfn|Cope|1967}} and would talk about his father's great influence later in life, particularly in encouraging him in his study of natural history.{{sfn|Lawrence|2004}} Lister's interest in natural history led him to [[osteology|study bones]] and to collect and dissect small animals and fish that were examined using his father's microscope{{sfn|Clark|1920}} and then drawn using the [[camera lucida]] technique that his father had explained to him,{{sfn|Plarr's|2008}} or sketched.{{sfn|Godlee|1924|pp=12–15}} His father's interests in microscopical research developed in Lister the determination to become a surgeon{{sfn|Clark|1920}} and prepared him for a life of scientific research.{{sfn|Cope|1967}} None of Lister's relatives were in the medical profession. According to Godlee, the decision to become a physician seemed to be an entirely spontaneous decision.{{sfn|Godlee|1924|p=14}}

In 1843 his father decided to send him to university. As Lister was unable to attend either [[University of Oxford]] or the [[University of Cambridge]] owing to the [[Test Acts|religious tests]] that effectively barred him,{{sfn|Cope|1967}} he decided to apply to the non-sectarian [[University College London]] [[UCL Medical School|Medical School]] (UCL), one of only a few institutions in Great Britain that accepted Quakers at that time.{{sfn|Bankston|2005|p=17}} Lister took the public examination in the junior class of botany, a required course that would enable him to matriculate.{{sfn|Lister|1859a|p=26}} Lister left school in the spring of 1844 when he was seventeen.{{sfn|Godlee|1924|pp=12–15}}

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|image1=Lord Lister Hotel Hitchin 2017.jpg|caption1 = The Lord Lister Hotel in [[Hitchin]], formerly Isaac Brown and Benjamin Abbott's Academy, where Lister was a student from 1838 to 1841|alt1= Benjamin Abbott's Isaac Brown Academy
|image2=Grove House from Bruce Castle Museum and Archive collections.jpg|caption2=Grove House, a private Quaker school in Tottenham. A lithograph by W.D. Sparkes in 1842. |alt2= Grove School in Tottenham, 1842
}}