Born at Market Harborough in March, 1809, the son of John Nunneley, a gentleman of property in Leicester, who claimed descent from a Shropshire family. Educated privately, Nunneley was apprenticed in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, and afterwards entered Guy's Hospital, where he was taught by Sir Astley Cooper and acted as dresser to Aston Key. He was admitted LSA on July 12th, 1832, and then went to Paris to complete his medical education. He applied unsuccessfully for the post of House Surgeon at the Leeds General Infirmary, but finding there was an opening in the town he began to practise there, and was soon afterwards appointed Surgeon to the Eye and Ear Hospital, which had been established in 1829 with eight beds. He lectured on anatomy and physiology and later on surgery until 1866 in the Leeds School of Medicine. He was elected Surgeon to the Leeds General Infirmary in 1864. For some years he was an active member of the Leeds Town Council. He died on June 1st, 1870. Nunneley was a surgeon who operated with equal ability, judgement, and skill, and was one of the earlier surgeons outside London to devote himself to the special study of ophthalmic surgery in its scientific aspects. He was clear, vigorous, and logical as a writer, and was a man of decided character. He was a valuable professional witness in favour of William Palmer (1825-1856), who was hanged for poisoning J P Cook, a turf acquaintance, and against William Dove, who poisoned his wife with arsenic in 1856. There is a photograph of Nunneley in the College Album and another in Barker and Edwards's *Photographs of Eminent Medical Men* (1867, i), also one in the second volume of Boase's *Modern English Biography*, ii. Publications:- Nunneley's chief work was *The Organs of Vision, their Anatomy and Physiology*, 8vo, London, 1858. The sale of the book, which was really of considerable value, was spoilt by adverse criticism due to personal animosity. He also wrote on Calabar bean (1863); on the effects of hydrocyanic acid and the value of its presumed antidotes and remedies; on anaesthesia (1849); on erysipelas (1841); and on aneurysm of or within the orbit (*Med-Chir Trans*, 1859, xlii, 165).