Educated at St Thomas' and Guy's Hospitals, having previously been a pupil of William Tomblin Keal, of Oakham. At Grantham, where he settled, he enjoyed a good private practice, and was also Surgeon to the Grantham District of the Great Northern Railway. He was Surgeon to the Royal South Lincoln Mil

The son of a Welsh clergyman, probably one of the Radnorshire family. He studied at the united hospitals of Guy's and St Thomas's, where he was a pupil of Cline and a prime favourite of Sir Astley Cooper. After qualifying he practised in the East End of London, but his health giving way he removed i

Born about 1818 at Garnedd, in West Anglesey, and was apprenticed to his uncle, William Roberts, at Carnarvon. He held several dispensary appointments in Ireland, then settled at Uxbridge Place, Carnarvon, for more than forty years. He sat on the Town Council, became an Alderman, and had a large pra

Born at Barnsley on 20 November 1878, the sixth son of Thomas Braithwaite, master coachmaker, and his wife, *née* Wadsworth. He was educated at Heath Grammar School before entering the Leeds Medical School, then a constituent of the Victoria University, where he had a brilliant career. He was electe

Born 19 February 1839 at Waterside North, Lincoln, the son of William Henry Brook, who had come to Lincoln County Hospital as a house surgeon and had married Miss Winn, the only daughter of John Winn, a brewer in the town. Charles Brook was educated privately at a school kept by Miss Richards, first

The son of Thomas Mordey, shipowner; studied at Guy's and St Thomas's Hospitals and afterwards in Paris. He commenced practice in Sunderland in 1826, when he became well known during the cholera epidemic of 1831-1832. He had charge of the Cholera Hospital and was generally praised for the good servi

William Hey II was the second son of William Hey I (1736-1819); he followed his father as a surgeon at Leeds, and, like him, was Surgeon to the Leeds Infirmary. He died at Leeds, after being twice Mayor, on March 13th, 1844. He was succeeded in turn by his son William Hey III (qv). Publication:- *T

Born in St Kitts and educated at Totteridge Park Grammar School. He matriculated at the University of London, and received his professional training at St Mary’s Hospital, where he was appointed Demonstrator of Anatomy and then House Surgeon. He gained the Sibson Clinical Prize in his student days (

John Humphreys was a greatly respected consultant general surgeon in Southport from 1961 to 1990. His main interest was in gastro-intestinal surgery, but he was also a competent urologist. Fully committed to patients under his care, he visited them at weekends to check on their progress. In view of

Received his professional training at St George's Hospital, where a certain R Cumming, according to the St George's Hospital Records, was twelve months pupil to Sir Benjamin Brodie from April 28th, 1834. He was a Volunteer Surgeon before he settled in practice at Malpas, Cheshire, where he remained

Educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital and the Aldersgate Street School. At the time of his death he was a magistrate for the county of Lancashire, and Hon Surgeon to the Wigan Dispensary. He practised in partnership with Charles D Shepherd, at Standish Gate, Wigan, and died on October 21st, 1870. P

Educated at University College, London, where his career was distinguished. He was Filiter Exhibitioner in Pathology, Bruce Gold Medallist in Surgery and Pathology, Liston Gold Medalist in Clinical Surgery, Demonstrator of Histology, and House Surgeon at the Hospital. He practised throughout at Goda