Son of Andrew Adams, a wholesale draper at Plymouth, and of Eliza Oake his wife. Born at Plymouth on July 4th, 1842, and after education at a private school was apprenticed to W Joseph Square (qv), Surgeon to the South Devon and East Cornwall Hospital. Entered St Bartholomew’s Hospital, after being

Received his professional education at University College Hospital, where he was elected a House Surgeon. Was Surgeon to the Western Ophthalmic Hospital, to the North Pancras Dispensary, and occupied the position of Surgeon to the North-west District of St Pancras. He was a Fellow and Honorary Secre

The son of a surgeon in good practice in Bath. After a short stay in London he returned to Bath and began professional life as his father’s assistant in the year 1801. On the death of an elder brother, a surgeon, he began to practise on his own account. In 1817 he succeeded his father as surgeon to

Educated at University College and practised at Tewkesbury, where he was at one time Medical Examining Surgeon of Army Recruits, and at the time of his death Senior Surgeon to the Dispensary and Medical Officer of Health, as well as Surgeon to the Midland Railway and Medical Referee to the Railway P

Educated as an Associate Scholar at King's College, London, and professionally at King's College Hospital, where he served as House Physician. After qualifying in London in 1861 he spent some time in Edinburgh, where he acted as Dresser and Clinical Clerk in the Edinburgh Infirmary, and then proceed

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

Entered St Bartholomew’s Hospital as a pupil of John Abernethy. Started practice in Manchester, living for many years in Moseley Street; in 1815, on the establishment of the Eye Hospital, he was appointed Surgeon, and on his retirement Consulting Surgeon. In a paper on the “Treatment of Accidental C

Received his professional education at Guy’s and St Thomas’s Hospitals. At the time of his death he was a Fellow of the Obstetrical Society of London, a member of the Royal College of Chemistry, and of the Epidemiological, London Meteorological, and Norfolk and West Suffolk Archaeological Societies,

Eldest son of Robert Burrows, silversmith, of Ipswich, by his wife Elizabeth, daughter of James Cordy, of London, was born at Ipswich on August 5th, 1813. He was educated at the Ipswich Grammar School and apprenticed to William Jeffreson, surgeon, of Framlingham. He completed his medical education a

The son of a solicitor at Great Yarmouth, was educated at University College and Hospital, where he gained many honours and held the offices of House Surgeon, House Physician, Surgical Registrar, Demonstrator of Pathology, and Assistant in the Obstetrical and Ophthalmological Departments of the Hosp

Educated at Edinburgh, St Thomas’s, and Guy’s Hospitals. At the time of his death he was Surgeon to the Gateshead Dispensary and Lying-in Charity. He was also a Justice of the Peace for Durham. He died at his residence, High Street, Gateshead, Durham, on Aug or Sept 24th, 1866. Publications: “On t

Educated at Guy's Hospital. He began to practise in Scarborough in 1840, shortly afterwards going into partnership with Thomas Weddell, who died in 1862. He practised for more than forty years in Scarborough, and was a prominent public man. At one period he was Physician to the Royal Scarborough Sea