Born at Middleton, Suffolk; went to school at Hall Place, Bexley. He was apprenticed at the age of 16 to Francis Moore, Much Hadham, Hertfordshire, for three years, and studied at St Bartholomew's Hospital as a resident pupil of Frederick Skey. He gained the Junior Silver Medal for Anatomy and Physiology in 1838-1839 at the Aldersgate School of Medicine, and then attended the Paris hospitals for a year. He practised at 14 Portman Street, Portman Square, and was for many years on the Court of Examiners of the Apothecaries' Society, and also Lecturer on Medical Jurisprudence at St Mary's Hospital Medical School. From 1857-1882 he was Medical Officer to the South Marylebone Infirmary He came into public notice and was the recipient of a testimonial on the occasion of the Regent's Park ice accident in January, 1867. On his retirement from office the St Marylebone parishioners presented him with a testimonial. His biographer in the *British Medical Journal* said:- "Dr Randall was a practitioner of great ability, a lecturer of much quiet research and intelligent capacity, a public officer of tact, assiduity, and good sense, a trustworthy colleague and a pleasant and witty companion; his life was full of usefulness and high desert." He died on May 14th, 1892, at 204 Adelaide Road, London, NW.