Background
Chessher was born in Hinckley in Leicestershire, in 1750. His father died during his infancy, and his mother married a surgeon named Whalley, residing also at Hinckley. And to him, after education at Bosworth school, young Chessher was apprenticed.
Career
He invented the double-inclined plane to help in the treatment of lower-body bone fractures. He early showed aptitude for improvising supports for fractured limbs, especially for the purpose of obviating contraction of muscles ana skin. At the age of eighteen he became a pupil of Doctor Denman, the eminent London accoucheur, attending William Hunter"s and Fordyce"s lectures.
He died on 31 January 1831.