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 Paris. He then settled in practice at Southampton and was appointed a Sanitary Surveyor to the Board of Trade, Medical Superintendent of Quarantine to the Royal Mail and Union Steamer Lines, and Medical Inspector of Emigrants and Recruits. He became Pres

Educated at University College, London, and in Paris. He practised at 56 South Audley Street, Grosvenor Square, then at 12 North Audley Street, and lastly at 2 Albert Terrace, Regent's Park, where he died on July 31st, 1896. His photograph is in the Fellows' Album. He published some cases in surgery

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

The eldest son of Thomas Wakley (1795-1862), the founder of the *Lancet*; born in London on March 21st, 1821, his mother being a daughter of Joseph Goodchild, a merchant in Tooley Street. It was intended that he should take Orders, and with that view he was privately educated by the Rev James Bassne

Born at Parkhill, Croydon, the son of William Smith, a London solicitor, a native of the County of Hereford. He was educated at Croydon and then at Harrow, where he entered in January, 1834, and left in 1837. He acquired a good knowledge of Latin and Greek, which in after-life enabled him to make ap

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