Born at Kingsbridge, South Devon, on April 28th, 1813. He was educated at a private school at Tavistock and at Crediton Grammar School. He entered St Bartholomew's Hospital in 1838, being a fellow-student of Sir James Paget (qv). After further study in Paris, he settled at Plymouth in partnership wi

Born at Langford, Co Tyrone, in 1866, the third son of the Rev Canon Stack, and was educated at Haileybury School, at Pembroke College, Cambridge, and then at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he was Brackenbury Medical Scholar. He was known as a hard-working student, with a mechanical bent, and good

Born in 1866, he was educated at Aberdeen University, the Middlesex and King's College Hospitals. He was a house surgeon at the Gloucestershire General Infirmary and Eye Hospital and then ophthalmic clinical assistant at the Middlesex Hospital. He settled in practice at Lewes, Sussex and was appo

Born at Gawcott, Buckinghamshire, on July 14th, 1855, the second son of the Rev T C Whitehead, Head Master of Christ's College, Finchley. He studied at Charing Cross Hospital, and, becoming FRCS, was appointed Assistant Surgeon to Charing Cross Hospital in 1881. He was also Assistant Surgeon to the

Came of a Yorkshire family collateral with that of the poet, and born at Manchester, where his father, the Rev William Wordsworth, was curate. He was apprenticed in 1840 to John Jesse, a well-known Manchester practitioner, from whom he derived all the advantages of a well-ordered apprenticeship. He

The second child and only son of Francis Edward Nairn, a gentleman of independent means, and his wife, *née* Curtis, was born at Greytown, New Zealand on 12 March 1862. He was educated at Nelson College and at Wellington College until he came to England and entered St Thomas's Hospital for his medic

The youngest child of James Wardrop (1738-1830) by his wife Marjory, daughter of Andrew Marjoribanks of Marjoribanks. He was born on August 14th, 1782, at Torbane Hall, a small property owned by his forefathers for many generations. It adjoined the parish celebrated as the birthplace of the Hunters

Educated at Brighton College, and studied at Guy's Hospital, where he highly distinguished himself at the London University examinations and acted as House Surgeon, House Physician, Obstetric Resident, and Assistant Demonstrator of Anatomy, and was good at sports. He was next House Surgeon at the Ro

Born 12 July 1869 at Romford, Essex, the fourth child and third son of Octavius George Daldy, coal and timber merchant, and his wife, *née* Mantell. He was educated at Cranbrook School, Kent, and at Guy's Hospital, and was awarded a gold medal at the London University MB BS examination. Daldy was in

Born at Brisbane, Australia, 22 February 1880, he was educated at Brisbane Grammar School and entered the Queensland public service. At the age of 22 he entered the University of Sydney, and graduated in medicine in 1907. He was a resident at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, started general

Educated at the Newcastle Medical School (University of Durham) and Guy's Hospital, he joined the resident staff of the Sussex County Hospital, Brighton. He went back to Newcastle-on-Tyne in 1901 as assistant surgeon to the Northumberland and Durham Eye Infirmary, but returned to Brighton in 1907 as

Vincent Nesfield was born in India on 12 October 1879, the son of John Collinson Nesfield, Director of Education in India, and Ellen Blumhardt, a missionary who had been through the siege of Lucknow during the Mutiny. He entered St Mary's Hospital Medical School in 1897 and completed a successful ca