Born September 15th, 1797, fourth son of Samuel Bishop of Pimperne, Dorsetshire; educated at the Child-Okeford Grammar School in Dorsetshire. It was intended that he should be a lawyer, but at the age of 25 he was induced by his cousin, John Tucker, of Bridport, to become a doctor. He entered St George’s Hospital as a pupil of Sir Everard Home, and attended the lectures of Sir Charles Bell, George James Guthrie (qv), and George Pearson. He was also a regular attendant at the chemical courses given at the Royal Institution. He became Surgeon to the Islington Dispensary, to the Northern and St Pancras Dispensaries, and to the Drapers’ Benevolent Institution. In 1844 Bishop contributed a paper published in the *Philosophical Transactions* on the “Physiology of the Human Voice”, and was shortly afterwards elected FRS and a Corresponding Member of the Medical Societies of Berlin and Madrid. The Royal Academy of Science of Paris awarded him two prizes for memoirs “On the Human and Comparative Anatomy and Physiology of the Voice”. He was also the author of: “On Distortions of the Human Body”, “On Impediments of Speech”, and “On Hearing and Speaking Instruments”. These works were remarkable for the careful examinations which the author had made on the subjects under investigation and for the mathematical demonstration given of each theory advanced by him. He contributed several articles to Todd’s *Cyclopœdia* and many papers of more or less importance to the medical literature of the day. Bishop was a man of varied attainments; he was conversant with Continental as well as with English literature, and to within a few months of his death he was deeply interested in the progress of science. He died on September 29th, 1873, at Strangeways-Marshale, Dorsetshire, within a few miles of his birthplace.