Born on June 13th, 1841, the son of Thomas Pickering Pick, merchant, of Liverpool. After going to the Royal Institution School, Liverpool, he entered St George's Hospital in 1857, at a time when the staff numbered such men as Caesar Hawkins, Prescott Hewett, the Lees, and George David Pollock; Timot

The son of a Birmingham surgeon. He received his professional training at Queen's College, where he was afterwards Professor of Anatomy. He practised in Colmore Row, Birmingham, and was appointed Assistant Surgeon, and in 1863 became Surgeon, to the Queen's Hospital. Some years later he exchanged th

Born in London; studied at St Thomas's Hospital, where he was Dresser to John Flint South (qv), and took honours in anatomy at the 1st MB, but never graduated at the University of London. After qualifying he was appointed House Surgeon at the Queen's Hospital, Birmingham, in 1854, when the Medica

Born in Salisbury, an elder brother of George Roberts Tatum (qv), and there passed his boyhood and received his early education, after which he became a student at St George's Hospital. As there was at that time no medical school in connection with the Hospital, young Tatum, like his teacher and fri

Born on March 25th, 1802, the son of John Tuson, a well-known general practitioner in London. He began the study of medicine under Carpue at the little school in Dean Street, Soho, and then entered the Middlesex Hospital. As House Surgeon there he, at the early age of 22, came prominently before the

Born on 10 January 1870 at 14 Buckingham Terrace, Glasgow, W, second child and eldest son of George Brodrick Edington, iron-founder, and Charlotte Jane his wife, daughter of Peter Watt, MD. He was educated at Kelvinside Academy and Glasgow University and at King's College, London. At Glasgow he grad

Born at Exeter on Dec. 12th, 1799, the third son of James Luke, merchant and banker, by his wife, who had been a Miss Ponsford, of Drewsteignton. He entered Blundell's School at Tiverton in 1813 and remained there until 1816, when, on the death of his father, he came to London and was articled to Jo

Born in the United States of America in 1841, the only son of John Hawley Cooke and Jane, daughter of the Hon Richard Hawley. His parents took him to Paris as an infant, where he had no regular education. At the age of 13 Cooke was left to make a private arrangement with a schoolmaster. Starting as

Educated at University College, London, and practised at 160 Albany Street and at 29 Albany Street, Regent's Park, NW. He was Surgeon to the North-West London Free Dispensary for Sick Children. Later he was appointed Lecturer on Anatomy and Physiology at the Metropolitan School of Dental Science. At

Gray's father was Private Messenger to George IV and William IV; his sister and a brother died young, but a second brother, Thomas William Gray, left two daughters, one of whom supplied Clinton Dent (qv) with biographical details. Gray entered at St George's Hospital as a perpetual student on May 6

Born on May 26th, 1853; studied at the College of Ohio, Cincinnati, USA, where he graduated MD in 1874. After becoming FRCS in 1877, he was Professor of Anatomy at Cincinnati from 1879-1881; then of Anatomy and Clinical Surgery from 1891-1902; of the Principles of Surgery from 1902-1905; and of Surg

Studied at the Ceylon Medical College and at the London Hospital. After becoming FRCS he was appointed Surgeon to the General Hospital, Colombo, and Lecturer on Anatomy at the Ceylon Medical College. He died in 1922.