The son of John Smith Soden (qv), of Bath, who was a Jacksonian Prizeman in 1810 with a dissertation on "The Bite of a Rabid Animal". John Soden succeeded to his father's practice, but on marrying a wealthy lady retired. He changed his name to Corbet in 1847, and after the death of his wife moved to

Born on November 10th, 1815, the second son of Richard Holmes Coote, of Lincoln's Inn, barrister-at-law, and one of the six conveyancing Counsel to the Court of Chancery. He was admitted to Westminster School on January 18th, 1826, and was apprenticed to Sir William Lawrence (qv) at St Bartholomew's

Born at Lynn. He was articled, it is believed, to Mr Morris, surgeon, of Gosberton, Lincolnshire, and after qualifying returned to his native town, where he was elected House Surgeon to the Lynn Dispensary, continuing in this office till the institution was dissolved. He then became partner with Tho

Educated at Guy’s Hospital; was Demonstrator of Anatomy at Grainger’s School, and of Morbid Anatomy at St Thomas’s Hospital. He was for many years a medical and surgical tutor, or, as it was then called, ‘a grinder’, living at 15 St Thomas’s Street, Southwark. He retired to Hollybank Cottage, St Joh

Educated at St George's Hospital, where he was House Surgeon and then Demonstrator of Anatomy at the School in Kinnerton Street. He was also at different times House Surgeon to the Lock Hospital and Surgeon to the Pimlico Dispensary and North London Ophthalmic Infirmary. He practised at 36 St James'

Surgeon and Consulting Surgeon to the Western General Dispensary, and Medical Referee to the Liverpool, London and Globe Insurance Company. He died at 27 York Place, Portman Square, W, on Nov 7th, 1880.

Born at Chesham, Buckinghamshire, on July 3rd, 1809, the eldest son of Henry Nathaniel Rumsey, a surgeon, by his wife, Elizabeth Frances Catherine, second daughter of Sir Robert Murray, Bart, whom he had married late in life. His grandfather, the youngest son of an old Welsh family, had settled and

Was at the time of his death Senior Surgeon to the Sheffield Public Hospital. He had also been Surgeon to the Public Dispensary. He practised at Upper Gell Street, Sheffield, and died on November 9th, 1874.

Born at Little Beck, Westmorland, the son of John Hall, and of Isabel, daughter of T Fothergill. He was educated at Appleby Grammar School and at Guy's and St Thomas's Hospitals, joined the Army in Flanders four days after Waterloo, and was posted for duty to a General Hospital in Brussels. He was p

The fifth son of John Eddison, of Gateford, Notts, who died in 1812. His father belonged to the Society of Friends. His mother, niece of Abraham Booth, Baptist minister, was left a widow with eight children under eleven years of age, but with remarkable energy she fitted them all to fill responsible

Educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital, and was for a time Lecturer on Practical Anatomy at the Aldersgate School of Medicine. He settled in practice at West Mailing, Kent, in partnership with Peter Montagu Pope, MD. He was appointed Medical Inspector of Private Lunatic Asylums in the County, and on

Studied at St Thomas's and Guy's Hospitals, and at the Windmill Street School. He practised at St Neot's, and was Medical Officer of the St Neot's Workhouse and District. Publications: Edited *Lectures on the Morbid Anatomy, etc, of Acute and Chronic Diseases* by the late John Armstrong, MD, 8vo, L