Son of William a’Beckett, attorney, by his wife Sarah Abbot, a strenuous supporter of municipal reform. He came of a Wiltshire family which claimed direct descent from the father of St Thomas à Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury. His elder brothers were Sir William a’Beckett (1806-1869), Chief Justice

For a time he practised at 1 Montagu Street, Portman Square, London, where he was Surgeon in Ordinary to the Ottoman Embassy Resident in London. Practised later at 7 Boyne Terrace, Notting Hill, London, where he died on Feb 25th, 1891.

Educated at University College and at Westminster Hospital. He was Hon Surgeon of the Royal Masonic Girls’ School, and a Fellow of the Medical Society of London. He practised at 7 Argyll Place, Regent Street, W, and died there on July 23rd, 1873.

Studied at St Thomas’s and Guy’s Hospitals, and after qualifying practised in Cambridge. He opened a discussion in 1860, at the Cambridge Branch of the British Medical Association, upon the treatment of acute inflammatory diseases. Antiphlogistic measures were considered undesirable; some would use

Practised in Manchester, first at Piccadilly, then at 1 Dolphin Place, Ardwick. He was Surgeon to the Manchester Royal Infirmary and Consulting Surgeon to the Ardwick and Ancoats Dispensary. As a lecturer and teacher of surgery he was deservedly popular among students. He exhibited great skill and j

Studied at St Bartholomew's Hospital, and practised as one of the firm of Harding & Hewer, later Harding, Hewer & Calthorp, at several addresses in London: 6 Mylne Street, Myddelton Square; 13 Spencer Street, Northampton Square; and Sandford House, Highbury New Park, where he acted as Surgeon to the

Educated at Manchester and University College Hospitals; practised at 14 Finsbury Place, London, where he was a member of the Court of Common Council. Later he moved to 12A Charterhouse Square, and was Medical Officer to Merchant Taylors' School, to the Great Western Bristol and Exeter Railways' Pro

The sixth son of John Nolloth, at one time Assistant Secretary of the Navy Board and latterly of the Portsmouth Dockyard. Edward Nolloth was the first to be appointed on the staff of the Royal Naval Hospital, Malta, the second appointment being Sir Spencer Wells (qv). He served as surgeon on HMS *Vi

Practised at Bridgnorth, Shropshire, where he was Surgeon to the Bridgnorth and South Shropshire Infirmary, and was a member of the London Pathological Society. He died in 1868.

Studied at Guy's and St Thomas's Hospitals, and practised at Tunbridge Wells, where he was well known. He died there, at 1 Calverley Parade, on February 17th, 1880.

Born of a family of medical practitioners in South Staffordshire during the previous century and a half. He succeeded his father and practised at Tipton Heath, where he was for many years Chairman of the Local Board of Health, one of the founders of the Guest Hospital, and for a long period Surgeon

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