Educated at St Xavier's College, Bombay, graduated in medicine and surgery at Bombay University, and completed his training at Charing Cross Hospital, where he served as House Surgeon and Surgical Registrar. He returned to India in 1894 and practised at Goa until 1908, when he settled in Bangalore,

Born in New Broad Street on Sept 23rd, 1844, the second son of John Adams,FRCS Eng (q.v.) and his wife Mary Ann. Educated at Merchant Taylors’ School, then in Suffolk Lane, which he entered in December, 1854, and at the London Hospital, where his father was a member of the surgical staff. There he m

Victor Stanley Brookes was an eminent Birmingham surgeon. His main surgical work was carried out at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, where he was a consultant for 25 years up until his retirement. He was a generalist in the traditional fashion with special interests in gastroenterology and colo-rectal

Eldest son of Robert Burrows, silversmith, of Ipswich, by his wife Elizabeth, daughter of James Cordy, of London, was born at Ipswich on August 5th, 1813. He was educated at the Ipswich Grammar School and apprenticed to William Jeffreson, surgeon, of Framlingham. He completed his medical education a

Born in Suffolk, and received his professional education under Sir Astley Cooper and Cline at St Thomas's and Guy's Hospitals, then united. He practised for a short time in Norfolk, and then in Colchester, but soon came to London, where he spent the remainder of his life, never leaving it for pleasu

Educated at Guy's Hospital, where he gained the second Scholarship in 1869, and afterwards at St Bartholomew's Hospital. House Surgeon for five years at the Loughborough General Hospital and Dispensary, which was called later the Infirmary. He then practised at Grantham, Lincolnshire, first at 21 No

Received his professional education at Guy’s and St Thomas’s Hospitals. At the time of his death he was a Fellow of the Obstetrical Society of London, a member of the Royal College of Chemistry, and of the Epidemiological, London Meteorological, and Norfolk and West Suffolk Archaeological Societies,

Born in January, 1819, and entered the Bengal Army as Assistant Surgeon on April 20th, 1846, being promoted Surgeon on Aug 2nd, 1859, and Surgeon Major on April 20th, 1866. Retired in September, 1870, and died at Cheltenham on Christmas Day, 1890. His London address was at Connaught Place, W.

Educated at St George's Hospital, where he was entered as a six-months pupil to Everard Home in October, 1805. He practised at York, and died in or before 1861.

Born in Manchester, March 5th, 1783, the son of Jeremiah Ainsworth, an accomplished scholar and well-known mathematician, who may be regarded as founder of a Lancashire school of mathematicians, and to whom many references will be found in *Notes and Queries*, 1853, viii, 541. The family of Ainswort

Born on October 2nd, 1836, in the house in Preston (27 Winckley Square) where his father had practised and where he himself died. His father was Alderman Robert Brown (1801-1858), (qv), for thirty-five years a leading Preston practitioner. Robert Charles Brown was educated at Preston Grammar School

Educated at University College and Middlesex Hospitals. At the time of his death he was Surgeon of the Bridgwater Union House Hospital and a Justice of the Peace. He practised at Bridgwater, Somerset, and died there on September 16th, 1867. Publication: "Use and Action of Hydrochloric Acid in Chole