Born at Cambridge, the eldest son of William Farish, Jacksonian Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy in the University. His father was Senior Wrangler in 1778 and was repeatedly a Moderator in the Mathematical Tripos; his predilection for physics and his mathematical ability was inherite

The youngest child of Edmund Turner (d1821), banker, of Truro, and of Joanna his wife, daughter of Richard Ferris, was born at Truro on Aug 18th, 1793. He was educated at the Grammar School of his native town during the head-mastership of Cornelius Cardew, and was apprenticed to Nehemiah Duck, one o

Practised at 26 Watling Street, Canterbury, where he was Surgeon to the Kent and Canterbury Hospital, and to the St Augustine County Prison. He died on May 3rd, 1861.

Was a well-known surgeon in Leeds, having been prominently connected with the Leeds School of Medicine, where he lectured on surgery, anatomy, and physiology. He helped to establish the Leeds Public Dispensary, with which he was connected as one of its Surgeons from its opening in 1824 till 1852. He

Born at Manchester and studied at the Infirmary there. After the death of Joshua Brookes he joined Thomas King in opening the Blenheim Street School of Anatomy, and afterwards became Lecturer on Anatomy and Physiology at Westminster Hospital Medical School. He practised in Delahay Street, close to t

The fourth son of John Webb, of Woodland Hill, Staffordshire, and afterwards of Dublin, by his wife, a daughter of Thomas Heath. He was born in Dublin on October 25th, 1772, and was appointed Assistant Surgeon March 17th, 1794; was promoted Regimental Surgeon on July 15th, 1795; Surgeon to the Force

The son of the Rev Isaac Hurst, of Milton Ernest, Bedfordshire, and grandson of the Rev Robert H Hurst, at one time Incumbent of Newton Blossomville, Buckingham. He went to Christ's Hospital, and was then apprenticed to Charles Short, of Bedford. He next entered Guy's and St Thomas's Hospitals and a

Born at Salisbury, the son of Captain Thomas Tatum, of the South Wales Militia, grandson of John Tatum, first Physician to the Salisbury Infirmary, and great-grandson of Thomas Tatum, MD, of Salisbury, who died at Mere in Wiltshire. George Roberts Tatum's brother was Thomas Tatum (qv), Surgeon to St

One of the three sons of John Taunton (1769-1821), anatomist and surgeon, of Hatton Garden, who founded, and was first Surgeon of, the City of London Truss Society. An account of him is in the *Dictionary of National Biography*. John Colley Taunton succeeded his father as Surgeon to the Truss Societ

Educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital, was a pupil of Abernethy, and won distinction for the ease and rapidity with which he passed his examinations. William Lawrence was one of his contemporaries. Before he was twenty he became assistant to William Newnham, of Farnham in Surrey, who was famous as a

Born in November, 1806, the only son of Henry Jackson, a distinguished surgeon of Sheffield; he was himself well educated and followed his father as a prominent surgeon in large practice in Sheffield. He was a pupil of William Staniforth, junr, in 1825, and was elected Surgeon to the Sheffield Gener

Studied at the Bristol, London, and Guy's Hospitals. He practised at 14 Lansdown Place, Clifton, Bristol, and died at Weston-super-Mare on December 20th, 1869.