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Barbers were chartered as a guild by Edward IV in 1462 as "The Company of Barbers".
The surgeons formed a guild 30 years later and the two companies were subsequently united by a statute of Henry VIII in 1540 under the name of "The United BarberSurgeons Company".
In 1745 surgeons were separated from barbers by acts passed during the reign of George II.
The barbersurgeon was one of the most common medical practitioners of the Middle Ages - generally charged with looking after soldiers during or after a battle.
However, the trade was gradually put under pressure by the medical profession and in 1745, the surgeons split from the barbers to form the Company of Surgeons.
In 1800 a Royal Charter was granted and the Royal College of Surgeons in London came into being (later it was re-named to cover all of England--equivalent Colleges exist for Scotland and Ireland as well as many of the old UK colonies).