Born at Clare, Suffolk, in May, 1817; went to the Mercers' School, and at 15 was apprenticed to Gilbert, a Norwich surgeon, and attended the practice of the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, where he attracted the attention of the Ophthalmic Surgeon, John Dalrymple (qv). In 1835 he entered Guy's Hospita

Studied at St Bartholomew's Hospital, practised at 1 Harringay Park, Hornsey, and died there on May 31st, 1866.

The eldest son of Thomas Wakley (1795-1862), the founder of the *Lancet*; born in London on March 21st, 1821, his mother being a daughter of Joseph Goodchild, a merchant in Tooley Street. It was intended that he should take Orders, and with that view he was privately educated by the Rev James Bassne

The son of the Rev Charles Girdlestone, who was a Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, at the time of his son's birth, and later Rector of Kingswinford. One of his brothers was Canon Girdlestone, of Christ Church, Oxford. Tharp Mountain Girdlestone was educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he

Born at Parkhill, Croydon, the son of William Smith, a London solicitor, a native of the County of Hereford. He was educated at Croydon and then at Harrow, where he entered in January, 1834, and left in 1837. He acquired a good knowledge of Latin and Greek, which in after-life enabled him to make ap

Studied at St Thomas's Hospital and in Paris. He first practised at Bath, where he was Surgeon to the City Gaol and to the Lying-in Charity. From 1840 onwards he was in general practice at 19 Leighton Crescent, Highgate, London, N, where he was Surgeon to the Dispensary, and to the 2nd Battalion Mid

Worked with Sir Charles Bell at the Windmill Street School and served under him at the Middlesex Hospital, where he acted as House Surgeon; when Bell was appointed Professor of Surgery Hind followed him to University College Hospital. Here he instituted the Anatomical and Pathological Museum, and wa

Born at 39 College Green, Bristol, on July 16th, 1818, the second son of James Cowles Prichard, FRS, a physician, famous as the author of *The Natural History of Man*. His mother was the daughter of Dr Estlin, Unitarian Minister and Co-Pastor at Lewin's Mead Chapel, a scholar and friend of Coleridge