Educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital and at the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland. He practised at Liverpool as Surgeon to the Liverpool Royal Infirmary until his retirement in 1874, when he was appointed Consulting Surgeon. For a time he was Surgeon to the Northern Hospital and Northern Dispens

Born on Sept 9th, 1780, at Kessingland, a village on the Suffolk coast, where his father occupied a large farm. His mother, who was a daughter of the Rev J Henchman, died while he was an infant, and he was placed in charge of his uncle by marriage, the Rev W Clubbe, Vicar of Brandeston. Mr Clubbe, a

Born on July 3rd, 1797, the eldest son by his second wife of James South, a druggist in Southwark. Sir James South (1785-1867), President of the Royal Astronomical Society, who also qualified as a medical man, was his half-brother. His father made money by prescribing for immense numbers of children

Was born at Shepton Mallet, in Somersetshire, in August, 1800, and received his elementary education under Mr Rogers, of Dursley, and Mr Mules, of Ilminster. He was apprenticed for five years to Richard Smith, Surgeon to the Bristol Royal Infirmary from 1796-1843, for a fee of two hundred guineas. H

Practised at Bedford in the firm of Harris & Son. He was co-proprietor with Henry Harris, LRCP Edin, Resident Physician, of the Springfield House Lunatic Asylum. He was also Surgeon to the Bedford General Infirmary, and Visiting Surgeon of Lunatic Asylums in Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, and Huntingd

Practised at Windsor in partnership with Mr Turrill; attended the Court professionally, became Mayor of Windsor, and was knighted on Nov 12th or 18th, 1823. He retired to Chertsey, where he died in 1849. Publication:- “A Singular Case of Expulsion of a Blighted Fœtus and Placenta at Seven Month

Practised at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and his death was reported to the Council in July, 1844, the authority for the report being The Times for June 19th, 1844. [2] [Amendments from the annotated edition of *Plarr's Lives* at the Royal College of Surgeons: [1] MRCS under the name John Forster (He chang

Was Surgeon to the South Herts Yeomanry Cavalry. He died at Hatfield on April 21st, 1855.

Studied in Dublin and London. He lectured on midwifery and surgery at the Sheffield Medical School, and died in retirement at Sheffield on Sept 28th, 1867. See below for an amended version of the published obituary: William Jackson was a general surgeon in Sheffield, and a co-founder of the Sheffi

The son of William Pettigrew, whose ancestor, the Gowan Priest ‘Clerk Pettigrew’, is mentioned by Sir Walter Scott in *Rob Roy*. The father was a Naval Surgeon who served in the *Victory* before the time of Nelson. Thomas was born in Fleet Street, London, on Oct 28th, 1791, and was educated at a pri

Son [1] of Thomas Alcock, a medical man practising at Ealing. Educated at Westminster Hospital, where he filled the post of House Surgeon, and in 1832 was appointed Surgeon to the British Portuguese forces acting in Portugal. In 1836 he was transferred to the Marine Brigade engaged in the Carlist wa

The son of Henry Swan, Surgeon to the County Hospital at Lincoln, where his ancestors had been doctors for several generations. He was apprenticed to his father, and was sent to the United Borough Hospitals in 1810. He became a pupil of Henry Cline the younger, and gained the warm friendship of Astl