Was apprenticed to his father, Dr John Bryant, for many years a successful practitioner in the Edgware Road. He was entered as a student at University College Hospital in 1834, where he studied under Liston, Samuel Cooper, Jones Quain, and Elliotson, and among his fellow-students were Richard Quain,

Was in general practice at 61 Broad Street, Ratcliff Cross, in 1847, then at Heath House, Commercial Road, E, where he was Surgeon to the Mercers' Almshouses, Stepney, to the Coopers' Almshouses, Ratcliff, and to the Government Vaccination Station, Stepney. By 1858 he had emigrated to New Zealand, w

Kenneth Whittle Martin, known as 'Poppy' to his family, was a general surgeon in Worthing with an interest in urology. He came from a long line of doctors dating back to at least 1774. He was born on 18 July 1917 in Singapore, the son of William Whittle Martin, an army ENT surgeon, and his wife Kati

Robert Pringle was a consultant surgeon in Dundee. He studied medicine in Glasgow, qualifying in 1950, and, after house jobs, completed a four-year short service commission in the RAF, reaching the rank of squadron leader. On leaving the RAF, he specialised in surgery in Glasgow and Newcastle, and

Charles Humphrey Jules Rey was a general surgeon in Guernsey. He was born on 15 August 1915, in Bognor Regis, into a family of French origins. His father, Jules Frederick Rey, was a general practitioner. His mother was Bertha Maud née Bevan. He was sent as a boarder to his preparatory school and fro

James Somervell continued his family’s tradition of missionary work in India. He was born on 23 April 1927 in Kodaikanal, southern India. His father, Theodore Howard Somervell, was a surgeon and mountaineer, who took part in the ill-fated 1922 and 1924 Mallory expeditions to conquer Everest. He beca

Pablo Juan Bautista Allamand was the doyen of surgery in Chile. Born on 5 August 1909, he was made an honorary fellow of our College in 1972 during the presidency of Sir Edward Muir. He died on 27 July 2009.

Joseph Attard (known to all as ‘Pep’) was a consultant general surgeon in Malta. He was born on 14 September 1932 in Senglea, a town in the Grand Harbour area of Malta. His father was Caesar Attard, a general practitioner and junior surgeon at the main civil hospital of Malta in Floriana. His mother

Educated at Guy's and St Thomas's Hospitals. He was at one period Resident Surgeon on the Seamen's Hospital Ship *Dreadnought*, and then practised at Exeter, where he was in 1848 the first Surgeon-Apothecary (House Surgeon) to the Devon and Exeter Hospital. He petitioned soon after his appointment t

Born at Stamford on April 28th, 1830, the second son of Jeremiah Clapton, at one time Mayor and Alderman of Stamford, and Steward of one of the Manors of which the Marquis of Exeter was lord. Jeremiah Clapton was Conservative agent for the borough for some forty years. Edward Clapton accordingly inh

Born at Stamford, one of a large family. His father educated his elder brother, Edward (qv), for the medical profession, but had no thought of doing so in the case of William, who only attained his object by dint of indomitable perseverance. He was educated at Christ's Hospital, first at Hertford an

The daughter of A W Claremont, JP. Her grandfather and many of her relations were members of the medical profession. She was educated at King Alfred School, Hampstead, and received her professional training at the London School of Medicine for Women, the Royal Free Hospital, and St George's Hospital