*He was born in 1813 in Mirfield, Yorkshire the son of John Ikin and Mary Ikin née Ingham. After study at Leeds, Edinburgh, London, and Paris was in general practice in Leeds and York - at Cookridge Street and 19 Park Place, Leeds; at 24 St Paul's Square, York; at 29, Reginald Terrace, Leeds. He lectured on anatomy and physiology at the Leeds School of Medicine, and was Surgeon to the Leeds Hospital for Women and Children, to which he was also Secretary and Collector of Funds for completion of a new hospital. This work was recognized publicly at the presentation of a silver tea service by the committee of the hospital in April, 1863. As Surgeon to the 4th West Yorks Regiment of Militia from 1853-1868 he examined medically some 13,000 recruits, and published recommendations for their more efficient examination in a paper read to the Public Medicine Section (President, Sir John Simon, FRS) at the Oxford Meeting of the British Medical Association, 1868. It was republished under the title, *On the Comparative Results of the Inspection of Recruits*, etc, 1868. He was at one time President of the Leeds Philosophical Society, and was a voluminous writer on medical controversies of his day. Besides the Examination of Recruits may be mentioned his translation of Pariset's *Memoir of Baron Dupuytren*, with Notes. *Opening sentence added on 9 June 2022 based on information provided by Ancestry.com