Born at Peterborough on August 18th, 1835, the son of Dr Thomas Walker, a native of Dumfriesshire who traced descent from John Knox, the Reformer. Thomas Walker practised in Peterborough, where both he and his wife lived to be over ninety years of age. Thomas James Walker went to the King's Schoo

Born on November 11th, 1837, at Brighouse, Yorkshire, the second surviving child of Thomas Jessop, a solicitor, by his wife, who was a Miss Haley. He was educated at the Giggleswick Grammar School under Dr Butterton and John Howson, father of John Saul Howson, Dean of Chester, and was apprenticed fo

Born at Ballymoney in 1818, and began to practise at Belfast in 1840. In 1864 he was appointed Medical Officer to the Belfast Constabulary, JP for Belfast and for Co Antrim, Surgeon to the Mater Infirmorum Hospital and to the General Dispensary. He also acted as President of the Ulster Medical Socie

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

Born at Kibworth in October, 1834, the son of John Marriott, MRCS, who practised at Kibworth for fifty-five years, while his grandfather practised there for over fifty years. He went to Uppingham School and was then a pupil of Henry Terry (qv), Surgeon to Northampton Hospital. After three years' app

Educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital. He practised for some twenty years at Chesterfield, where he was Surgeon to the Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Hospital and Dispensary, District Medical Officer to the Union and Surgeon to the Workhouse, and Assistant Surgeon to the Chatsworth Rifles (2nd De

The third of six sons of George Harrison; was for more than fifty years a prominent man in Chester as Surgeon to the Infirmary, then Consulting Surgeon, also three times Mayor. His eldest brother, George, practised as a partner with his father until his death about 1850. Another brother, Job, MRCS,

Born in Antigua in 1837, studied at Dublin, then acted as Ship's Surgeon on board a Cunard mail steamer. He settled in practice at Boston, Lincolnshire, where he was one of the founders of the Boston Hospital in 1871, begun by accommodating patients in two cottages in Irby Street. He was a Medical O

Studied at St Bartholomew's and at the Dublin Lying-in Hospitals. He practised at St Giles' Plain, Norwich, was Surgeon to the County Gaol, and Surgeon-Accoucheur to the Norwich Lying-in Institution. He died in retirement at the above address on September 3rd, 1883.

Studied at Guy's and St Thomas's Hospitals, and practised for many years at High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, where he was Medical Officer of No 1 District of the Wycombe Union, Surgeon Major in the Royal Bucks King's Own Militia, and Surgeon to the Great Western Railway Provident Society. Later he was

Born in New York, the son of Samuel Ogden Meredith, of Philadelphia; accompanied his father to Europe, was educated at Boulogne-sur-Mer, acquiring a thorough knowledge of French, and later, in 1886, became naturalized as a British subject. He studied Medicine at University College Hospital, where he

Educated at University College, London. He practised at Bideford, Devon, and was a Fellow of the Obstetrical Society of London and a member of the Harveian Society. He died on December 3rd, 1890. Publications: Thompson contributed papers on various subjects to the *British Medical Journal*, incl