Onyemara Nduche 'Dick' Onyeaso was chief consultant surgeon at Aba General Hospital, Nigeria. He was born on 7 July 1931 in Enugu, Nigeria, the son of Samuel Onyeaso, a clerk, and Minah Onyeaso, a housewife. He was educated at St Peter's Primary School, Enugu, the Methodist College, Uzuakoli, and De

Babu Lal Kathel, known as ‘Brij’, was a consultant surgeon at Grantham General Hospital. Born on 11 November 1932 in Jhansi, India, he was the son of Har Prasad Kathel and Durga Devi Kathel. He was educated at a Christian school and studied medicine at Lucknow University, where he qualified in 1955.

Born at Liverpool on October 4th, 1862, the son of Edward Robert Bickersteth (qv); was educated under Dr Hornby at Eton, which he entered in 1872. He was admitted a Pensioner at Trinity College, Cambridge, on June 13th, 1881, and graduated BA with first-class honours in the Natural Science Tripos in

Educated at St Bartholomew’s Hospital; practised at Dudley, Worcestershire, where he died on April 16th, 1870. He was a favourite pupil of Abernethy, and Badley’s notebooks of Abernethy’s lectures were presented by his grand-daughter, Miss Laura E Badley, to Queen’s College, Birmingham. It does not

Son of Leonard Bidwell, Chief Clerk in the General Post Office. Educated at Blackheath School, and entered St Thomas’s Hospital in 1882, where he was a House Surgeon. He then studied in Paris, was appointed Assistant Surgeon to the West London Hospital in 1891, and became Surgeon in 1906. There he d

Received his medical education in Birmingham and at Westminster Hospital. Was for several years House Surgeon at the General Hospital, Birmingham, where he established a reputation as a sound thinker, a good practical surgeon, and one of the ablest and most respected practitioners of Birmingham. Lat

Born about the year 1852 and was educated at the Royal School of Medicine, Manchester. He held most of the resident appointments at the Royal Infirmary (Assistant to the Ophthalmic Surgeon, Senior House Surgeon, and Physician's Assistant). At the time of his death he was in practice at 341 Stockport

Was at one time, before 1827, Lecturer on Midwifery at St Bartholomew’s Hospital and Surgeon to the Finsbury Midwifery Institution. He was practising at Barton-under-Needwood near Lichfield in 1837, and died there on October 3rd, 1869. He was a member of the Medical and Physical Society at Edinburgh

Born at Crickhowell, Brecon, the eldest of ten children; his father emigrated to Canada after practising for many years in Breconshire. The family of Bird had belonged to Herefordshire from Norman times, and the Gwynnes were an old Welsh family belonging to Cwnhordy. G G Bird was apprenticed to his

Educated at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, and practised at Cinderford, East Dean, Gloucestershire, at the Vicarage, Christow, Exeter, at Wattisfield, Diss, Suffolk, where he retired, and he finally resided at Oldham. He died on January 26th, 1892. Publications: “The Treatment of Diphtheria.” – *Med.

Entered King’s College, Aberdeen, in 1810; apprenticed to his uncle in Elgin in 1812, then became a clinical pupil at the Aberdeen Infirmary. He entered Guy’s and St Thomas’s Hospitals in 1815 and studied anatomy and surgery under Joshua Brookes at the Blenheim Street School, and midwifery under Mer

Son of Thomas Bird, was born at Muswell Hill in 1827. Studied at Queen’s Hospital, Birmingham, where he obtained a number of medals and certificates and became House Surgeon; was afterwards House Surgeon at St Thomas’s Hospital; he studied finally in Paris. He gained the Jacksonian Prize in 1849 for