High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Richard Partridge FRS, FRCS (19 January 1805; Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire – 25 March 1873; London) was a British surgeon. Although he became President of both the Royal College of Surgeons and the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society, he is best known for his part in apprehending the London Burkers gang and for failing to spot a bullet lodged in Giuseppe Garibaldi`s leg.