Reginald Theobald Payne was born at Northampton on 15 March 1896. When he was aged 65 he published a remarkable book *The watershed* in which he gave a vivid picture of his childhood and schooldays. He was the eldest of four brothers, and as his father, who had a furniture business in the town, brou

Born on December 28th, 1817, and at the time of his death was the eldest surviving son of William FitzPatrick, of Castle Dunow, Queen's County. He passed the preliminary examination of the Apothecaries' Hall of Ireland when he was 15 years old, and was then apprenticed to Mr Fraser, a well-known gen

Educated at St Thomas's Hospital, where he was Obstetric Resident. He started practice at Saundersfoot, Pembrokeshire, and was Physician to the Pembroke and Haverfordwest Infirmary, and then at Tenby. In 1870 he moved to London, practised at 67 High Street, Wandsworth, in partnership with Alfred Bro

Educated at the London Hospital, where he was House Surgeon, Resident Accoucheur, and Resident Medical Officer. Later he was Resident Medical Officer at the Tower Hamlets Dispensary. In 1865-1866 he was House Surgeon at the Torbay Infirmary, Torquay. Subsequently he practised there, and was Physicia

Born at Tiverton on December 14th, 1819, the sixth son of Captain Henry Waring, RN, of the city of Hereford. The family was peculiarly gifted, several of the brothers being well known in the world of letters. The second son, George, a scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Wadham and Magdalen Ha

Born at Preston, and received his medical education at the Borough School and Guy's Hospital. He settled in general practice in Manchester in 1834, and in 1847, when an alarming and disastrous epidemic of typhus raged there, was the general superintendent of the extensive arrangements made for check

The youngest son of George Willis, of Florence Court, Co Fermanagh; distinguished himself as a student at Middlesex Hospital, and after acting there as House Physician, went out to Japan with Colonel St John Neil's Mission. Willis became well known to Sir Henry S Parkes, KCB, throughout some sixteen

Educated at Guy's Hospital, where he was House Surgeon and House Physician, and was then appointed Resident Medical Officer at the Royal Albert Hospital, Devonport. He was Medical Superintendent of the Adelaide Hospital, South Australia, and an extra Examiner in Gynaecology and Biology in the Univer

Studied at St Bartholomew's Hospital and practised at Yarnton Lodge, Great Malvern, where he was Surgeon to the Dispensary and Accoucheur to the Great Malvern Lying-in Charity, Physician and Surgeon to the Malvern Rural Hospital. He died on June 15th, 1884.

Born at Brixton on 13 August 1866, eldest son and second of the seven children of John Bisdee Fawcett, of Lloyd's, and Ellen Hyslop, his wife. His father and mother both died when he was eleven, and the children were brought up by their uncle, Robert Grant, and his wife. He was educated at Dulwich a

Born at Liverpool on 5 June 1859, the second son and youngest child of Frederick Worthington, MRCS, LSA, of Abercrombie Street, Liverpool, surgeon to the Liverpool Lock Hospital, and Sophia de la Serre his wife. He was educated at Clifton College and at Guy's Hospital, where he served the office of

Born at Portsmouth on July 16th, 1817, the son of C W Hoffmeister, Collector of Customs at Belfast. He was educated at the University of Glasgow and at University College Hospital, London, where he was Clinical Clerk to Dr Elliotson and Dresser to Robert Liston. He settled in practice at Cowes in 18