Born at Salisbury in 1812, the son of William Henry Coates (qv). He was educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital, and was for a time teacher of anatomy and midwifery at the École Pratique de Médecine in Paris. He succeeded his father as Surgeon to the Salisbury Infirmary in 1847, a post which he resign

The youngest of the three children of Augustus Barker, a surgeon practising in Westminster, who married Sarah Anne Wilder at St Anne’s Church, Westminster, on May 8th, 1806. His father was the Rev W H Barker, of Carmarthen. W R H Barker was born on October 17th, 1810, and, his parents dying whilst

Educated at University College; he practised first at Louth, Lincolnshire, where he was Surgeon to the General Dispensary, and then at Lillington, Leamington, where he died at his residence, Vor Lodge, on June 30th, 1880. A William Blathwayt was a well-known politician in the time of William III.

First practised in Richmond, Surrey, and immediately after marrying Elizabeth Mary, second daughter of the Rev John Curnow Millett, of Penpol House, Hayle, Cornwall, on October 21st, 1846, went with his wife to Mexico, where he remained until 1855. In 1856, after a severe illness, he went to Spain a

Born in June, 1810; entered the Bengal Army as Assistant Surgeon on Jan 8th, 1841, was promoted Surgeon on March 10th, 1855, and Surgeon Major on January 8th, 1861. He retired on July 23rd, 1868. He saw active service in Central India in operations at Bandalkund in 1842, in the Santhal Rebellion in

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

Studied at University College and St George's Hospitals, London, also at Dublin, and practised at 1 Arlington Street and 43 Curzon Street, London. He acted as Visiting Apothecary to St George's Hospital and as Surgeon-Apothecary to the Dowager Queen Adelaide, to the Duchesses of Gloucester and Kent,

Practised in India, at Canton, and finally at Hong Kong, where he died on November 2nd, 1859.

Born in the neighbourhood of Wigan, to which his family belonged. He was apprenticed to Christopher Morris, of Wigan, and later, in 1830, became a student at St Bartholomew's and University College Hospitals. In the year 1830-1831 he obtained the prize in surgery at the Medical School in Aldersgate

Practised at Warrington Street, Ashton-under-Lyne, where he was Medical Officer of the Union Hospital and of the District Infirmary, also Certifying Factory Surgeon. He died at Ashton-under-Lyne on May 2nd, 1871.

Was at one time Surgeon to Queen Adelaide's Lying-in Hospital and to the Harrison Spinal Hospital. Afterwards he was Superintendent of the Seamen's Hospital, Constantinople. He practised later at 18 Whitworth Road, South Norwood, where he died on December l3th, 1889.

The son of Edward Jobson, of Elswick, was apprenticed to his uncle, Dr Frost, of Newcastle, and next served as apprentice assistant to Dr Leighton, of Newcastle, whose pupil at that time was Dennis Embleton. He then studied at Guy's and St Thomas's Hospitals, and having qualified distinguished himse