The fourth son of William Keate, D.D., rector of Laverton, Somerset; was born at Laverton on March 14th, 1777. John Keate, his elder brother (1773-1852), was the well-known and ferocious head master of Eton. Robert Keate was educated at Bath Grammar School until 1792, when he was apprenticed to his

The son of John Thomas, of Hawarden, Flintshire, by his wife, Maria, sister of John Boydell, the publisher and engraver, Lord Mayor of London in 1790. He came to London as a young man with an introduction to John Hunter; he acted as dresser at St George's Hospital, where he also a pupil of William C

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 on Nov 29th, 1779, the younger son of John Seager, of Shirehampton, Gloucestershire. He was educated at Warminster Grammar School, but it is not known where he received his professional training. He practised for many years at Cheltenham before, and probably after, 1810; he appears also to have

Practised in Northampton, where for twenty-nine years he was Surgeon to the General Infirmary until failing health, a few weeks before his death, compelled his resignation and he was succeeded by James Marsh (q.v.). He was also Surgeon to the Royal Victoria Dispensary, in which he was followed by hi

Came of a family long settled in Durham and was born at Norton in that county. Educated at Witton-le-Wear, he entered Emmanuel College, Cambridge, as a pensioner in on May 18th, 1799, and graduated MB in 1804. He was apprenticed to Sir Anthony Carlisle, Surgeon to the Westminster Hospital, where he

Resident Surgeon to the Wakefield Dispensary from 1839-1841, when he became Medical Superintendent of the York Asylum, a post he held from 1841-1845, after which he acted as Superintendent of the General and County Lunatic Asylum of Nottinghamshire, and last of all of the West Riding Asylum at Wakef

Educated at the London Hospital; practised at York, where he was Surgeon to the York Union, Assistant Surgeon to the 2nd West York Militia (Light Infantry), and Honorary Surgeon to the 11th Derbyshire Volunteer Rifles. During the Crimean War he was a First-class Staff Surgeon to the Osmanli Horse Ar

Born at Kingston, Jamaica, on May 24th, 1816. Gazetted to the Madras Army as Assistant Surgeon on April 20th, 1847. He saw service in Burma in 1852, and retired on Nov 26th, 1860. His address is given at the East India United Services Club, St James's Square, SW. He died before 1868. The title of t

The second of the ten children of Joseph Travers, sugar broker in Queen Street, Cheapside, by his wife, a daughter of the Rev. Francis Spilsbury. He was born in April, 1783, and after receiving a classical education at the Grammar School of Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, under the Rev. E. Cogan, was taugh

Babu Lal Kathel, known as ‘Brij’, was a consultant surgeon at Grantham General Hospital. Born on 11 November 1932 in Jhansi, India, he was the son of Har Prasad Kathel and Durga Devi Kathel. He was educated at a Christian school and studied medicine at Lucknow University, where he qualified in 1955.

Martin Corry was born on 23 May 1937 in Oxford, the son of D C Corry, a distinguished surgeon in that city and a Fellow of the College. It seems to have been assumed from early on that he would follow his father's profession and, after schooling at the Dragon in Oxford and at Rugby, he went up to Qu