The son of the Rev John Pye Smith, DD, FRS, a well-known Sheffield Nonconformist minister and geologist; the son inherited his father's industry, love of knowledge, and religious principles. Pye Smith went to Mill Hill School and was then articled to Ashwell, a City practitioner; he next studied

Born at Clare, Suffolk, in May, 1817; went to the Mercers' School, and at 15 was apprenticed to Gilbert, a Norwich surgeon, and attended the practice of the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, where he attracted the attention of the Ophthalmic Surgeon, John Dalrymple (qv). In 1835 he entered Guy's Hospita

Studied at University College Hospital and in 1841 settled in practice at Spalding, where he held the posts of Surgeon to the Spalding Dispensary, the Spalding Union Infirmary, the Johnson Hospital, and to the Railway. He was Local Secretary to the Royal Medical Benevolent College, on the Council of

Born in the neighbourhood of Finsbury Square, London, on April 18th, 1821, the fifth child and second son of Richard Parrott Hulme, a wool merchant, and Maria Wyndham his wife. He was educated at a private school in London, where he was so severely burned by a squib which he was carrying in his pock

Studied at St Thomas's Hospital and in Paris. He first practised at Bath, where he was Surgeon to the City Gaol and to the Lying-in Charity. From 1840 onwards he was in general practice at 19 Leighton Crescent, Highgate, London, N, where he was Surgeon to the Dispensary, and to the 2nd Battalion Mid

Studied at St Bartholomew's Hospital, practised at 1 Harringay Park, Hornsey, and died there on May 31st, 1866.

Worked with Sir Charles Bell at the Windmill Street School and served under him at the Middlesex Hospital, where he acted as House Surgeon; when Bell was appointed Professor of Surgery Hind followed him to University College Hospital. Here he instituted the Anatomical and Pathological Museum, and wa

Born at 39 College Green, Bristol, on July 16th, 1818, the second son of James Cowles Prichard, FRS, a physician, famous as the author of *The Natural History of Man*. His mother was the daughter of Dr Estlin, Unitarian Minister and Co-Pastor at Lewin's Mead Chapel, a scholar and friend of Coleridge