William Edmund Image, born in 1807, of French Huguenot extraction, was apprenticed to John Greene Crosse of Norwich, then studied at Guy's Hospital and in Paris, where he graduated Bachelier ès Lettres. At the outbreak of the Revolution in 1830 he returned and settled in practice at Bury St Edmunds, where he was Surgeon to the Hospital and gained a local reputation and general respect. Arsenical poisoning was a matter of wide popular suspicion in East Anglia, and Image was a witness at three trials; at the last in 1849, Katherine Foster was executed at Bury St Edmunds for the murder of her husband. He rose to the chief practitioner consulted within the radius of twenty miles around Bury St Edmunds - until his retirement in 1873. For the next thirty years he lived as a country gentleman at Herringswell, Mildenhall, Suffolk, served as a JP for the County, and in 1877 as High Sheriff. He died there on September 26th, 1903, at the age of 96, being the senior FRCS. He was twice married, his second wife being a person of property. His son, Dr Francis Edward Image, MA Cantab, followed his father in practice at Bury St Edmunds; J M Image, a nephew, was a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and another nephew, Mr Selwyn Image, was Slade Professor of Art at Oxford. Publications: "Case of Enlargement of the Left Mamma." - *Med-Chir Trans*, 1847, xxx, 105.