Edward Fawcett (anatomist)

Edward Fawcett (18 May 1867 – September 1942) was a British anatomist and embryologist, known for his research into the mammalian skeleton, particularly the skull and its developmental precursor structure, the chondrocranium. He held the chair in human anatomy at the University of Bristol (1893–1934) and was Dean of the university's Faculty of Medicine (1905–34). He was an elected fellow of the Royal Society (1923) and president of the Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1927–29). The physiologist Henry Dale describes him as a "foremost authority on the morphology and development of the mammalian skeleton".