Born at Langport on April 11th, 1819, the son of William Norman, a medical man descended from an ancient Somersetshire family - the Normans of Fiveheads. He received a liberal education and his early professional training was with his father. He entered University College as a medical student in 183

Born at Market Harborough in March, 1809, the son of John Nunneley, a gentleman of property in Leicester, who claimed descent from a Shropshire family. Educated privately, Nunneley was apprenticed in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, and afterwards entered Guy's Hospital, where he was taught by Sir

Born on 20 April 1879, second son of George Edward D'Arcy Adams, MD Aberdeen, who practised at 1 Clifton Gardens, Maida Vale, London, W, and his wife who was a sister of Robert Doyne, FRCS. He was educated at Lancing, and at Exeter College, Oxford. Here he came under the influence of his uncle Ro

Born on 16 February 1869 at Eccles, near Manchester, the first child of Thomas Clegg, agent, and Elizabeth Gray, his wife. He was educated at Manchester Grammar School and at the Victoria University where he graduated MB with honours in 1893, having taken the Conjoint qualification in 1891. Transfer

Studied at St George's Hospital, and practised at 59 Oxford Terrace, Hyde Park. At one time he was Surgeon to the North London Infirmary for Diseases of the Eye. He died in retirement on July 10th, 1872.

Born at Merthyr Tydfil on 24 December 1875, the son of Richard Thomas Jeremy, draper, and Maggie Rowe, his wife. He was educated at the Grammar School, Merthyr Tydfil, and studied medicine at University College, London, and at the London and St Bartholomew's Hospitals. He was surgical prizeman at th

Born 9 July 1859 at Forest Hall, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, son of the Rev James Samuel Blair, vicar of Killingworth, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and his wife, *née* Buxton. He was educated at Durham School and having won a university scholarship in 1878 entered the University of Durham College of Medicine, Newc

James Bankes was born in Romiley, Cheshire, on 10 March 1935, the son of Reginald and Alice Bankes, who were both pharmacists. He was educated at King's School Macclesfield, King Edward VII School, King's Lynn, and the City University, London, before entering St Mary's Hospital Medical School where

It was probably because of his early life as the son of a medical missionary in Burma that from the age of four Peter Gurney was determined to become a doctor. Born in England on 23 September 1937, he travelled when he was two with his parents to Panglong in Burma. Then, just managing to escape capt

David Hugh Nixseaman was a consultant ophthalmic surgeon in Ayrshire and Galloway. He was born in Norwich, Norfolk on 16 December 1924. His father, Alfred Jonathan Seaman, was a chaplain to HM Forces in India; his mother was Edith Minna Seaman née Nix-James, a teacher and the daughter of an engraver

Fisher received his medical education at the Westminster Hospital Medical School and qualified both with the London MB BS and the conjoint diploma in 1952. Deciding to specialise in ophthalmology after qualifying, he held junior appointments at the Westminster Hospital and at Moorfields. He won the

Malcolm Graham was an ophthalmic surgeon in Dublin. Born in Dublin on 1 April 1924, he was the oldest child of Malcolm Moore Graham, a clergyman in the Church of Ireland and his wife Constance Kathleen Hilary née Vaughan who was the daughter of a solicitor. After attending Mourne Grange School, Kilk