Third son of the Rev Samuel Alford, of Queen's College, Oxford, who graduated BA in 1797 and MA in 1800. He was born at Curry Rivel, near Taunton. The Alford family had held property in West Somerset from the middle of the sixteenth century, and son had succeeded father in the church for several gen

Educated at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, and practised at 40 Edgware Road and at 9 Oxford Square, W. He was Surgeon to the Western General Dispensary, where he was succeeded by his son Edgar Barker jnr, MRCS.

Was Surgeon to the Alnwick Infirmary, Northumberland, and the Union Workhouse. He was much respected locally, and died at his house, 54 Bondgate Street, Alnwick, on May 14th, 1855. Publication: "On Strangulated Femoral Hernia, treated by Chloroform." - *Lancet*, 1848, ii, 66.

Born in Nottingham on October 4th, 1806, of a good family, but was without means. He went to Lincoln Grammar School, and, through the kindness of a relative, was apprenticed to White, of Nottingham. He then studied at St Thomas's Hospital, whilst supporting himself almost entirely by writing for the

Practised in Birmingham, and was Surgeon to the Edgbaston Eye Infirmary. In 1835 he gained the Jacksonian Prize for an essay on "Injuries and Diseases of the Larynx, also of the Trachea and its Treatment", which was afterwards published (8vo, London, 1837; Philadelphia, 1838, 1841). He was much este