The third of six sons of George Harrison; was for more than fifty years a prominent man in Chester as Surgeon to the Infirmary, then Consulting Surgeon, also three times Mayor. His eldest brother, George, practised as a partner with his father until his death about 1850. Another brother, Job, MRCS,

Born at Crickhowell, Brecon, the eldest of ten children; his father emigrated to Canada after practising for many years in Breconshire. The family of Bird had belonged to Herefordshire from Norman times, and the Gwynnes were an old Welsh family belonging to Cwnhordy. G G Bird was apprenticed to his

Born at Dorchester on Aug 12th, 1787. He was educated at Lymington, Hants, was then placed under a well-known surgeon at Salisbury, and in 1807 entered St Thomas’s Hospital, where, under the tuition of Sir Astley Cooper and Cline, he soon acquired a superior knowledge of anatomy and surgery. Sir Ast

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 (

Went out to Australia and practised for thirty-three years in Richmond, Melbourne, Victoria, being at one time a member of the Victorian Central Board of Health. He died at 172 Victoria Street, Richmond, on June 30th, 1895.

The son of Dr J W Clarke, of Huddersfield, praised by Sir William Broadbent as "the best general practitioner he had ever met". He graduated from Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he had been a Foundation Scholar, and was 33rd Wrangler. He received his medical education at the University, and compl

Educated at the combined hospitals of Guy's and St Thomas's, where he applied himself to surgery with such zest as to become a favourite dresser of Sir Astley Cooper. Yet he was not related to his famous namesake, under whom he acquired a sound practical knowledge of surgery. He was intimately conne

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

Received his professional education at Guy’s and St Thomas’s Hospitals. At the time of his death he was a Fellow of the Obstetrical Society of London, a member of the Royal College of Chemistry, and of the Epidemiological, London Meteorological, and Norfolk and West Suffolk Archaeological Societies,

Born at Edinburgh on Nov 1st, 1842, the son of Peter S Banks, Writer to the Signet. He received his early education at Edinburgh Academy and passed from there to the University of Edinburgh. Graduated MD with honours, and won the Gold Medal for his thesis on the Wolffian bodies in 1864. Acted for a

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

Educated in London and Paris. Was at one time Surgeon to the Somerset Militia and Coroner for North Somerset. He was Mayor of Bath in 1859-1860, and at the time of his death was JP for Bath and Surgeon to the St Catherine’s Hospital and Bath Eye and Ear Infirmary, and also Hon Consulting Physician t