Born on Dec 29th, 1788, the third son of the Rev James Mayo, MA, Head Master of Queen Elizabeth’s Free Grammar School, Wimborne, and Rector of Avebury in succession to his father and grandfather. The Mayos may be described as a Wiltshire family, members of it having flourished there as clergymen and

The son of Samuel Cooper, a merchant in the whaling trade; through his mother descended from the Priestleys, of which family the famous chemist, Joseph Priestley (1733-1804), was a member. Henry Cooper received his education at private schools, and at the age of 16 became a pupil of Dr Fielding, of

The son of Henry Swan, Surgeon to the County Hospital at Lincoln, where his ancestors had been doctors for several generations. He was apprenticed to his father, and was sent to the United Borough Hospitals in 1810. He became a pupil of Henry Cline the younger, and gained the warm friendship of Astl

The son of Isaac and Alicia Callaway. His parents died young and he was educated by his grandfather, who was Steward to Guy's Hospital and lived within its precincts. He was apprenticed in 1809 to Sir Astley Cooper, and in 1815 he went to Brussels directly after the Battle of Waterloo. He was electe

Born on May 29th, 1812, his father, of an old Monmouthshire family, being a Doctor of Medicine and Roman Catholic who, in 1836, settled in practice in Upper Brook Street. He with two brothers were sent to Oscott, another brother became well known as a barrister, an active Governor of St George's Hos

Born on October 13th, 1781; entered the Army as Surgeon's Mate on November 20th, 1803, was gazetted Assistant Surgeon to the 16th Foot on May 1st, 1805, Surgeon to the 3rd West India Regiment on March 3rd, 1808, was transferred to the 13th Foot on September 26th, 1816, and retired on half pay on Nov

Entered St George's Hospital as a twelve-months surgical pupil to Benjamin Brodie in September, 1823. He practised at 11 Bigg Market, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and died at Westoe after a long illness on December 6th, 1855.

Was Surgeon to the Stafford County Infirmary, and died in retirement at 93 Kingsdown Parade, Bristol, on May 21st, 1861. Publications:- Hughes wrote books on the "Natural Diversities of Man" and on "Consumption".

Practised at Stafford, where he was Surgeon to the County Infirmary and Prison. He moved later to Barnstaple, where he died on November 22nd, 1880.

Was articled to John Merriman, of Kensington, studied at Great Windmill Street School, and in 1825 entered St George's Hospital, where in 1838 he was House Surgeon; in 1834 he was Surgeon to the Pimlico Dispensary. He lectured and demonstrated on anatomy at Kinnerton Street, lying to the west of St

The eldest son of Dr James Johnson, whose birth name was properly Johnstone, but by a clerical error at the Admiralty in his Commission as Assistant Surgeon his surname was spelled Johnson, and he appeared as such in the Navy List. There was no way to get the error corrected, and as Johnson he becam

Studied at St Thomas's and Guy's Hospitals, and practised at St Mary's Gate, Derby, being also Surgeon to the Derbyshire General Infirmary. He died in 1869.