Born on March 31st, 1788, and entered the Army as Surgeon's Mate on the Hospital Staff, unattached, on June 4th, 1808, and on August 4th was gazetted Assistant Surgeon to the 23rd Regiment of Foot. He was promoted to Surgeon in the same regiment on May 26th, 1814, exchanged into the 14th Foot on Jul

Born on September 18th, 1811, at Gibraltar, where his father, a military officer, was stationed. He used to say that for recurring fits when a younger man he had been bled from the arm twenty-five times in the course of a year, besides having some four dozen leeches applied, and had yet continued st

Studied at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he was House Surgeon during 1859 and 1860. In 1861 he was House Surgeon at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street. He then went out to the Mauritius, where he practised at Rose Hill, Plaines Wilhelms, was Government Medical Officer, and Medica

Studied at Middlesex Hospital, and entered the Royal Navy Medical Service in 1884. In 1890 he was awarded the Gilbert Blanc Gold Navy Medal for distinguished proofs of skill, diligence, and learning in the exercise of his professional duties. He had become Fleet Surgeon attached to HMS *Orontes* whe

Practised as a surgeon at Looe, near Liskeard, Cornwall, and in the last few years of his life at Albany Place, Plymouth. He died in or before 1854.

Henry Collymore was born in Trinidad on 8 January 1918. His father, Moulton Bruce Collymore, was an inspector of schools. His mother was Violet Angelina Redhead, the daughter of a headmaster. Henry won an exhibition from his elementary school to St Mary's College, Port of Spain, Trinidad. He worked

Ranfurly Percival Stanley Kelman was born in 1898 in Ranfurly, Central Otago, New Zealand, and went to the Otago Boys' High School where he distinguished himself at both rugby football and cricket. He then went to Otago University where he graduated in medicine in 1921. He spent the next two years i

Born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, on September 12, 1909, the elder son of Arnold Kirz, technical manager of a textile concern, and Josephine, née Neumann. He studied at Prague University and qualified in 1935. He began his career as a surgeon as an assistant in a teaching unit. In 1939 he came

Born at Wassell par Hayles, Worcestershire, the son of Danish Rogers, barrister. He joined the Madras Army as Assistant Surgeon on December 12th, 1827, was promoted to Surgeon on January 3rd, 1843, and retired on September 3rd, 1848. He died at Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, on March 21st, 1860. He was

Studied at University College Hospital, where he was Fellowes Clinical Medallist in 1875, Ronald Martin Medallist in 1877, Demonstrator of Physiology, and also House Physician. He joined the Madras Army as Surgeon on March 30th, 1877, was Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Examiner to the Governmen

Studied at Guy's Hospital and practised for forty years in Croydon, at first with Henry Horsley. He was for thirty-one years Surgeon to the Croydon Union Infirmary and was active in arranging a new building. Together with Alfred Carpenter and Sir Thomas Eldridge he promoted the Croydon General Hospi

Born 21 November 1889, the seventh child and second son of William Carlton, muslin draper, of Grantham, and Mary Elizabeth Rollinson, his wife. He was educated at Doncaster Grammar School, and won an open exhibition in mathematics and natural science to St John's College, Oxford, where he began by r