John Collis Carter – John Carter in the *Fellows’ Register* – was one of the earliest members of the Royal College of Surgeons, the Charter of which is dated March 22nd, 1800, as George Gunning Campbell (qv) was one of the last to be admitted a member of the old Corporation of Surgeons. Dates of his

Practised in Sheffield (South), where he was Surgeon to the Public Dispensary. His death was reported to the College in 1850 as having occurred some time before August 26th of that year.

The following obituary was published in Volume 1 of Plarr's Lives of the Fellows. Practised at Margate, where he died on June 7th, 1859. The following obituary was written and submitted in 2019. Joshua Waddington was a surgeon in Margate and a contemporary of the poet John Keats at Guy’s

Was a Surgeon in the Royal Navy, and served on HMS *Wilberforce* in the Niger Expedition of 1841, concerning which he published *Some Account of the African Remittent Fever, which occurred on board HMS Wilberforce in the River Niger* and while engaged on service on the West Coast of Africa. Nearly e

Practised at Banbury, Oxfordshire, and died there on January 29th, 1853.

Studied at the Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin, the École de Médecine, Paris, and King's College, London. In 1835 he became a Surgeon in the Royal Navy, and in 1846 gained the prize which Sir Gilbert Mane had instituted in 1829 for the best journal kept by a naval surgeon. Latterly he was Staff Su

Practised at Rochdale, Lancashire, and died there on October 23rd, 1874.

Practised at Guildford. He was a very senior Member when elected FRCS. He died on November 5th, 1849.

Born in March, 1792, entered the IMS, Madras Army, as Assistant Surgeon on April 13th, 1816, was promoted to Surgeon on December 16th, 1828, to Superintending Surgeon on February 1st, 1843. He saw active service in the Third Maratha, Pindari, or Dekkan War (1817-1818), and died at Madras on December

Born on March 10th, 1779. Joined the Cumberland Militia as Surgeon on June 21st, 1803, and the Army as a Staff Surgeon on January 2nd, 1806. He retired on half pay on February 25th, 1816. He served in Buenos Ayres in 1807 and in the Peninsular War from 1812-1814. In later life he lived for many year

Born at Gosport; educated in London and Paris. He practised at 16 Pall Mall, SW, migrated to America in 1847, and was immediately appointed Professor of Special, General, and Surgical Anatomy in the University at St Louis. Two years later he took part in the gold rush to California and settled at Sa

Entered King’s College, Aberdeen, in 1810; apprenticed to his uncle in Elgin in 1812, then became a clinical pupil at the Aberdeen Infirmary. He entered Guy’s and St Thomas’s Hospitals in 1815 and studied anatomy and surgery under Joshua Brookes at the Blenheim Street School, and midwifery under Mer