Born at Derby, the youngest son of a large family. At an early age he became a pupil of Messrs T and H Lomas, of Belper, a firm which, for fifty years, turned out a succession of energetic and well-trained practitioners. He finished his education at University College Hospital, and in 1840 began to

Eldest son of Thomas Amyot, FRS, Treasurer of the Society of Antiquaries and sometime Private Secretary to the Right Honourable William Wyndham. His mother was Jane, daughter of Edward Colman, of Norwich, surgeon. Thomas Amyot was born on Jan 28th, 1817, and was admitted to Westminster School on Jan

Educated at the London Hospital. Practised at Worthing, where he was Medical Officer to the Infirmary and did much to bring the place into repute as a health resort. He was a Fellow of the British Meteorological Society. He lived at 18 The Steyne, Worthing, and died there on March 24th, 1868. Publi

The son of a medical man in Bristol, whose brother was the Rev Samuel Edward Bernard (1800-1884). Educated at Bristol, St George’s Hospital, London, at Dublin, and in Paris. He was elected Surgeon to the Bristol Royal Infirmary on May 4th, 1854, after the contested election usual at that time when c

Born at Sydenham on November 1st, 1812; studied at the London Hospital, started practice in Shadwell in 1843, and was for forty years one of the best-known medical practitioners in East London, as Surgeon to the Police, Registrar of Births and Deaths for Shadwell and Wapping, Public Vaccinator, and

Practised at Lancaster, and was for many years Medical Superintendent of the County Lunatic Hospital there. He died in retirement at his residence, Argyll Road, Kensington, on March 24th, 1888.

Educated at St George’s Hospital and at the Grosvenor Place School of Medicine, where he took an anatomical prize. He was a younger brother of Isaac Baker Brown (qv). Soon after qualifying he settled at St John’s Lodge, Kensal Green, where he practised for some thirty years. He was Medical Officer o

Resident Surgeon to the Wakefield Dispensary from 1839-1841, when he became Medical Superintendent of the York Asylum, a post he held from 1841-1845, after which he acted as Superintendent of the General and County Lunatic Asylum of Nottinghamshire, and last of all of the West Riding Asylum at Wakef

Educated at the London Hospital. He first practised as a surgeon at Chatham, where he was Surgeon to the Rochester and Chatham Dispensary, and Union Medical Officer. Before 1857 he had removed to London, where he practised first at 15 Carlton Hill East, St John's Wood, and then at 14 Westbourne Terr

Practised at Bury St Edmunds, where he died on March 26th, 1884.

Born in October 1818, the son of John Diaper, of Portsmouth. He entered the Bengal Army as Assistant Surgeon on Dec 25th, 1840, and saw active service in Central India, taking part in the operations in Bandalkund during 1842. He was promoted Surgeon on February 1st, 1855, was Field Surgeon to the Ca

Practised first at Cambridge Terrace, Hyde Park, later at Little Bealings, Suffolk, and finally in Ipswich, where he died on November 10th, 1884.