Philip King was a consultant surgeon at St Stephen’s Hospital, Chelsea, and honorary consultant surgeon at the Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth. He was born in 1918, the son of an obstetrician and gynaecologist. He was educated at Stonyhurst, and went on to read medicine at Sheffield, but the lo

Sir Aubrey Gordon Leacock, known as 'Jack', was a leading consultant surgeon in Barbados. He was born on 27 October 1918 in Barbados, into an established Bridgetown family. His father, Sir Stephen Leacock, was a leading merchant. He received his early education in Barbados, at Harrison College. In 1

John Davis was a consultant general surgeon at the Whittington Hospital, London. From Cambridge he went to St Thomas’ Hospital for his clinical training and house appointments. After qualifying he served in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve for two and a half years in a minesweeping squadron. Afte

Lloyd Nyhus was the first Warren Cole professor and head of surgery, and the second academic surgeon, at the University of Illinois, Chicago. During his 22 years as head of the department, Nyhus developed innovative, multidisciplinary residency programmes for more than 300 doctors and recruited top-

[2] Studied anatomy and physiology at the Webb Street School, which was then under the management of Richard Grainger (1798-1861), the younger brother of the talented but ill-used founder. In 1838 he entered as a medical student at St Thomas's Hospital, where he came under the influence of Joseph He

Gazetted Assistant Surgeon to the 1st Foot Guards on December 25th, 1813, being present with his regiment at Waterloo. He exchanged on half pay to the 52nd Foot on October 10th, 1816, and commuted half pay on November 12th, 1830. In 1840 he was gazetted Surgeon to the Wilts Yeomanry. He died at Chel

Educated at Guy's and the London Hospitals. After qualifying he went out to Mauritius, where he was Surgeon to the Small-pox Hospital and Quarantine Establishment. Later he was Surgeon at the Hastings Dispensary, and then for many years practised at 80 Gloucester Terrace, Hyde Park, W. He died on Ju

Was a well-known surgeon in Leeds, having been prominently connected with the Leeds School of Medicine, where he lectured on surgery, anatomy, and physiology. He helped to establish the Leeds Public Dispensary, with which he was connected as one of its Surgeons from its opening in 1824 till 1852. He

Educated at the London Hospital and practised in Theobald's Road, and then at 33 Great James' Street, Bedford Row, WC, where he was Medical Referee to the Merchants' and Tradesmen's Insurance Company. Later Wykeham Lydall was associated with him in partnership. He finally practised at 11 Well Road,

Educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital. He practised at Rickmansworth, Herts, and was there Medical Officer to a District of the Halford Union. In 1871 he was practising at Tulse Hill, whence he moved (by 1881) to Ealing Dean, W, where he died, at 5 Churchfield Road, on July 19th, 1898. He was a Fell

Born on March 4th, 1808, at Longton, Staffordshire. His family had been long established in the Potteries, and the name of Robert Garner appears in local records as far back as the days of James I. Garners were at different times well-known potters, some being connected with the house of Wedgwood, a

Apprenticed to Messrs Lodge and Walton, of Preston, and began to practise at Clitheroe. In 1873 he moved to Lytham, where, attending only personal friends, he acted as JP for the County of Lancaster and was one of the Local Improvement Commissioners at Lytham until the change in the constitution of