Born in the United States of America in 1841, the only son of John Hawley Cooke and Jane, daughter of the Hon Richard Hawley. His parents took him to Paris as an infant, where he had no regular education. At the age of 13 Cooke was left to make a private arrangement with a schoolmaster. Starting as

Practised at Trinity House Lane, Hull, and was Surgeon to the Hull General Infirmary and to the Lying-in Charity. He was also Lecturer on Anatomy at the Hull and East Riding of Yorkshire Medical School. Late in life he was living at Hessle, Yorkshire, where he died in or before 1860.

Born 24 August 1856 at 4 Friar Street, Reading, the son of James Haslam, a land and estate agent and auctioneer, and Catherine Clarke his wife. He was educated at Amersham Hall School, Caversham, and at Marlborough Grammar School, and was early apprenticed to a surgeon on the staff of the Royal Berk

Born at Finchley, Middlesex, 27 December 1852, the fifth child of Thomas Black, merchant and Mary Guy, his wife. He was educated at the Cholmley Grammar School, Highgate and matriculated in the University of Cambridge from Caius College in January 1874. He was a scholar of the college from Michaelma

Vyramji Bharucha was born in India on 21 February 1886 and obtained his medical education at Bombay University, the Middlesex Hospital and King's College, London. In 1910 he joined the Indian Medical Service with the rank of Lieutenant, becoming Captain in 1913, Major in 1922 and Lieutenant-Colonel

Eric Farquharson was born on 13 December 1905, the only son of William Anderson Farquharson, SSC, and Agnes Ness Cowie. A paternal great-grandfather, grandfather and two uncles were medically qualified. He was educated at Edinburgh Academy and the University of Edinburgh. Postgraduate studies follow

Born on March 25th, 1802, the son of John Tuson, a well-known general practitioner in London. He began the study of medicine under Carpue at the little school in Dean Street, Soho, and then entered the Middlesex Hospital. As House Surgeon there he, at the early age of 22, came prominently before the

Born 11 October 1882, the third child and only son of Samuel Buckley, FRCS, consulting physician to the Clinical (now the Northern) Hospital for Diseases of Women and Children, Manchester, and his wife, Florence Woolley. He was educated at Rugby and Trinity College, Cambridge, and took first-class h

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 Royston, Herts, in 1825, the eldest son of William Nunn, MRCS, who practised in Royston for many years. William Nunn's father, Thomas Nunn, was a surgeon in the Navy, and the wife of this Naval surgeon was a descendant of Sir Edmond Butts, Physician to Henry VIII. Both the father and mother

Born in Salisbury, an elder brother of George Roberts Tatum (qv), and there passed his boyhood and received his early education, after which he became a student at St George's Hospital. As there was at that time no medical school in connection with the Hospital, young Tatum, like his teacher and fri

The son of William Parker, Medical Officer of Health for the Aston Union, who practised in Aston Road, Birmingham, where he was born. He was educated at Heathfield Road School, Handsworth, under the Rev Daniel Walton, and afterwards attended the medical and surgical practice of the Birmingham Genera