Born near Bridgwater, Somerset, and was a fellow-apprentice with Thomas Wakley, founder of the *Lancet*, to Mr Incledon, an apothecary at Taunton. Grabham completed his term with a Mr Leroux, Surgeon at Clifton, and at the same time became a pupil of Mr Shute, Surgeon to the Bristol Infirmary. Subse

Studied at Guy's and St Thomas's Hospitals, and practised at Crayford, Kent, where he was Surgeon to the Police and Certifying Factory Surgeon. He underwent a long painful illness, over which his friends, Erasmus Wilson, Henry Smith, and John Adams, consulted together, and he died at Crayford on Nov

Born at Limerick, the son of a merchant. He entered the Uncovenanted Medical Service of Bengal in 1837 and continued in it until 1841, when on December 4th he joined the Bengal Army as Assistant Surgeon, being promoted to Surgeon on October 9th, 1855. He saw active service in the First Sikh or Sutle

Studied at Edinburgh, Guy's and St Thomas's Hospitals. At Edinburgh he became a Member of the Royal Medical Society in 1823. He practised at the Mansion House, High Street, Stockport, Cheshire, in the firm of Medd & Son, and was Surgeon to the Stockport Infirmary. He supported vaccination, was a Cor

Born on October 21st, 1782. He entered the Army on November 12th, 1805, as Surgeon's Mate on the hospital staff, not attached to a Regiment, and was gazetted Assistant Surgeon of the 95th Foot on November 21st, 1805. He was promoted Surgeon of the 40th Foot on September 3rd, 1812, and retired on hal

Practised at Abbey Square, Chester, where he was Surgeon to the General Infirmary and to the Lying-in Institution. He died in 1863 or 1864, long surviving George Harrison, junr (? his son) (qv), and his successor as Surgeon to the General Infirmary.

Born on June 14th, 1788, at Ashton-under-Lyne, the son of a highly respected solicitor. He was sent to several small private schools unsuited to a delicate young boy. His father intended him for a solicitor, but the boy hated desk work, had a taste for drawing, and a love of angling and books about

The son of Robert McCormick, a Surgeon in the Royal Navy; born at Runham, near Great Yarmouth, on July 22nd, 1800, of an Irish family long settled in Co Tyrone. He was a pupil at the United Borough Hospitals in 1821, and entered the Royal Navy as an Assistant Surgeon in 1823. He served in the West I

Born on July 7th, 1787, entered the Army as Surgeon's Mate on the Hospital Staff unattached on December 30th, 1808. He was appointed to the 1st Foot Guards, later the Grenadier Guards, on June 29th, 1809, with which he served in the Walcheren Expedition (1809), at Cadiz in the Peninsula (1811-1813),

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,

Received his professional education at St Thomas's and Guy's Hospitals. He became Surgeon to the North Devon Infirmary, and at the time of his death was Consulting Surgeon. He practised at Barnstaple and died at his residence, Riversvale, in 1884.

Was a Surgeon in the Royal Navy, and died in retirement at 26 St Paul's Street, Leeds, on September 20th, 1867.