The third son of Louis Thomas, a merchant whose place of business in George Street, Sheffield, was on the site now occupied by the Sheffield Banking Company. He was educated at a private school in Wakefield and was apprenticed to his brother-in-law, Thomas Waterhouse. He then studied in London and P

Born at Perth on November 2nd, 1810, the only son of the leading partner of the well-known firm of Duncan, Flockart and Company, chemists. He was educated at Perth, at the High School, Edinburgh, and at the University of Edinburgh, where he acted first as House Physician under Gregory, and then as H

Born at Newbury, Berkshire, where his father, Osman Vincent, was a silk merchant and banker, living at Donnington. Captain Richard Budd Vincent, CB (1770?-1831), was John's elder brother. Vincent was apprenticed to William Long (d 1829), Surgeon to St Bartholomew's Hospital and the Bluecoat School,

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

Born on Sept. 11th, 1781, the second of the sons of a merchant who had made a fortune in the West Indies. He was educated at Greenwich at the school kept by the Rev. Charles Burney, D.D., son of the historian of music, whose library was bought by the nation to be preserved in the British Museum as t

The son of a cheesemonger in the Bullstake Haymarket at Sheffield; was apprenticed to William Staniforth, sent, one of the first three Surgeons elected to the Sheffield General Infirmary when it was opened in 1797. Staniforth was not only a surgeon with a local reputation as an oculist, but he was t

Educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he served as House Surgeon. He was at one time Senior Surgeon to the Farringdon General Dispensary and Surgeon to the North London Eye Infirmary. He continued in practice at 5 Suffolk Place, Pall Mall East, till his retirement, when he lived at Dover, Tun

Born in Tavistock Place, London, on Jan. 1st, 1811, the son of Daniel Curling, F.S.A., Secretary to the Commissioners of His Majesty's Customs, and Elizabeth, daughter of William Blizard and sister of Sir William Blizard. He was educated at The Manor House, Chiswick, and was afterwards apprenticed t

Born at Great Yarmouth on Jan. 11th, 1814, the eighth of seventeen children of Samuel Paget by Sarah Elizabeth, his wife, daughter of Thomas Tolver, of Chester. Sir George Edward Paget (1809-1892), Regius Professor of Physic at Cambridge, was a brother. The father was a brewer and a shipowner who se

Born on July 18th, 1776, the eldest son of the Rev Robert Pitcairn, of Brasenose College, Oxford, Vicar of English Combe, Somerset, and Incumbent of Spring Chapel, London. The family originated in Pitcairn, Fifeshire, and to it belonged the two well-known physicians – William Pitcairn, MD (1711-1791

Born at Coventry on March 29th, 1780; was educated at King Edward’s Grammar School. He was then apprenticed to George Freer, of Birmingham, the author of *Aneurysm and some Diseases of the Arterial System* (1807), who evidently inspired his pupils with higher aims that the mere routine of practice,

Born on Sept 9th, 1780, at Kessingland, a village on the Suffolk coast, where his father occupied a large farm. His mother, who was a daughter of the Rev J Henchman, died while he was an infant, and he was placed in charge of his uncle by marriage, the Rev W Clubbe, Vicar of Brandeston. Mr Clubbe, a