Born at Exeter on July 6th, 1788, the son of a retired Bristol merchant. He was educated at the Exeter Grammar School and was apprenticed in 1805 to Benjamin W Johnson, and from 1806-1808 to Robert Patch, who was well known as a Surgeon to the Devon and Exeter Hospital. He thus came under the influe

Educated at St George’s Hospital, where he was entered as a six-months’ surgical pupil to Everard Home on Oct 8th, 1810. He obtained leave of absence from the Hospital in 1811, being then in practice at Leicester, where he was at one time Surgeon to the Infirmary and County Gaol and to the Leicester

Practised at Earls Colne, Essex, until his death in 1868. In 1818 he presented "The Original Obstetric Instruments of the Chamber-lens" to the Medico-Chirurgical Society. (See "Brief notice presented to the Medico-Chirurgical Society with the original obstetric instruments of the Chamber-lens," by

Born on December 20th, 1834, the fourth son of Edward Cayley, JP, banker, of Stamford, Lincolnshire, and Frances, daughter of the Rev Richard Twopeny, MA, Rector of Little Casterton, Rutlandshire. Among his brothers were the late Sir Richard and Dr William Cayley of the Middlesex Hospital. He was co

David Stirk was a consultant general surgeon in Barnstaple and an authority on golf. He was born in Exeter on 1 March 1916, the son of a doctor. He was educated at Blundell’s and studied medicine at St Mary’s Hospital. After five years in the RAMC, three of which were spent in India, he returned t

Pritam Singh was chief medical officer, director of health services and deputy secretary of health to the Punjab government in India. He was born in Patiala, India, on 9 January 1920. His father, Harcharan Singh Seraph, was an architect who had worked with Lutyens on the building of New Delhi. His m

Born at Plymouth on Jan 31st, 1804. While still a boy he visited Ceylon in 1819, returning to England by way of Mauritius, where he stayed for six months. Entering on the study of medicine in his native town, he went afterwards to London and entered the Middlesex Hospital and the Windmill Street Sch

Was in general practice at Bolton-le-Moors and at Accrington. He emigrated to Queensland about 1861-1862 [1], and practised for some years at Ipswich in that Colony. From 1869-1872 he was Surgeon Superintendent of the Lunatic Asylum, Woogaroo, and was also Medical Officer of St Helena Gaol and the D

Born at Manchester, the son of the Rev James Chalmers, MA. He was educated at the Manchester Grammar School, then at the Liverpool and University of London Colleges and Hospitals. After obtaining various exhibitions and medals in the earlier subjects, he gained honours in medicine and surgery at the

Was Hospital Mate (an abbreviation of Surgeon's Mate on the Hospital Staff, not attached to a regiment) for two periods from November 27th, 1809, to May 24th, 1810, and again from March 28th, 1814, to July 7th, 1819. He served in the United States in 1814. On July 8th, 1819, he became Hospital Assis

Born at Bow, the son of the Rev Charles Champneys, Rector of St Botolph's in the City of London, and Minor Canon of Windsor. He was educated at Guy's Hospital, and first practised at Slough, where he was Surgeon to the Police, and to the Great Western Railway whilst the branch to Windsor was under c

Patrick Boulter, or ‘Paddy’ as he was affectionately known, was a consultant surgeon to the Royal Surrey County Hospital and the Regional Oncology Centre, Guildford, Surrey. He was elected president of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and served from 1991 to 1994. He was born in Annan, D