Apprenticed to Francis Bennett at the Dispensary, Gateshead, Durham, and entered as a matriculated student at King's College, becoming a student at the hospital as soon as it was opened. He was one of the Surgeons of the Royal South London Dispensary until "the dignity of the profession" required th

Surgeon-Oculist to Queen Victoria, and Surgeon to Cork Street Eye Infirmary. He succeeded to the practice of Sir Wathen Waller, and was succeeded as oculist to the Queen by Sir William White Cooper (qv). He is said to have been especially successful in cataract operations, which he always undertook

Arnold Eley qualified at Charing Cross and after junior posts did his National Service in the RAMC as a junior surgical specialist. On leaving the Army he was registrar at the Connaught Hospital under J Thompson Fathi and surgical first assistant at St George's before being appointed to the Surrey H

Neville Rees was a former medical director of Saudi Medicare and a medical superintendent in Perth, Australia. He was born in Gorseinon, near Swansea, on 20 February 1922, the son of David Cyril Rees, a steel worker, and Olwen Elizabeth née Clark. From Gowerton Boys Grammar School he went to the Lon

The son of Jeremiah Vaux, whom he succeeded as Surgeon to the General Hospital, Birmingham, an office held by Dr Jeremiah Vaux from the foundation of the institution. Bowyer Vaux held office from 1808-1843. He died at Teignmouth, South Devon, where he had resided for seventeen years, on Saturday, Ma

Born at Bungay, entered University College Hospital in 1844. Among his friends and contemporaries were Richard Quain (qv) and William Cadge (qv), of Norwich. After qualifying in 1847 he joined the West India Mail Steamship Service, and passed through the yellow fever epidemic of 1848. From 1853 he w

Educated in Dublin. He was at one time Surgeon to the General Hospital as well as Resident Surgeon to the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company at Hong Kong. In 1871 he was in practice at 5, Windsor Terrace, Bedford, but in a few years went out again to China and practised in Shanghai, 18

Educated at St Bartholomew’s Hospital and in Vienna. After qualifying he became House Surgeon at the Royal Cornwall Infirmary, and practised for some years at 20 Union Road, Tufnell Park, N. He was at one time Assistant Aural Surgeon to the Dispensary and Senior Assistant Demonstrator of Anatomy at

Born at St Albans, the son of William Bassett-Smith, and educated at St John’s College, Hurstpierpoint. He then entered the Middlesex Hospital, and after acting as House Physician passed into the Navy in 1883. He was promoted to Staff Surgeon in 1895; Fleet Surgeon in 1899, Surgeon Captain in 1917,

Born at Enniskillen on May 26th, 1819. Joined the Army as Assistant Surgeon to the 54th Foot on July 11th, 1845, promoted Staff Surgeon (2nd class) August 15th, 1854, transferred to the 6th Dragoons on March 16th, 1855 and to the 12th Dragoons, January 14th, 1860. He was promoted Surgeon Major of th

Studied at St Thomas’s and Guy’s Hospitals, and after qualifying practised in Cambridge. He opened a discussion in 1860, at the Cambridge Branch of the British Medical Association, upon the treatment of acute inflammatory diseases. Antiphlogistic measures were considered undesirable; some would use

The son of William Bennett, born at Coventry, where his father had built the Royal Opera House. He studied at Queen’s Hospital, Birmingham, and became Resident Surgical Officer at the General and at the Jaffray Hospitals. He gained further experience at St Bartholomew’s Hospital and in Paris before