David Bailey was a consultant surgeon at University College Hospital (UCH). He was born on 1 March 1922. Qualifying in medicine from the University of Cambridge and UCH his first post was at the latter. After proceeding to the Royal Northern Hospital and Barnet General Hospital as consultant surgeon

William Nigel Whiston Baker was a consultant general surgeon at Ashford Hospital, Middlesex. He studied medicine at Middlesex Hospital Medical School, qualifying MB BS in 1958. He gained his FRCS in 1966. Prior to his consultant appointment, he was a senior registrar at Westminster Hospital, a resi

Educated at Manchester and Edinburgh. He early directed his attention to the treatment of the insane, and in 1840 was appointed Medical Superintendent of the large Asylum for the County of Lancaster, at a time when the treatment of the insane in England was only just beginning to emerge from a long-

Studied in Edinburgh, Dublin, and Paris; practised at Wellington Place, Belfast, and was Surgeon to the Queen's Royal Antrim Rifle Corps. He was a member of the Royal Hunterian Society of Edinburgh and of the British Medical Association. He died at Belfast on February 22nd, 1891.

Born on September 26th, 1812, the eldest of the seven children of John Gay, currier, of Wellington, Somerset, by his wife Mary Timewell, whom he had married on Nov 25th, 1811. John Gay was apprenticed to Stephen Franklin Bridge (qv), a general practitioner in Wellington, whom he afterwards propos

At the time of his death Gepp was senior MSA, having taken his diploma as long before as 1791. For fifty-seven years he had been surgeon to the Gaol and House of Correction at Chelmsford and Springfield. He was one of the first surgeons to be elected a Fellow, and he died at Chelmsford on December 1

Born on May 29th, 1812, his father, of an old Monmouthshire family, being a Doctor of Medicine and Roman Catholic who, in 1836, settled in practice in Upper Brook Street. He with two brothers were sent to Oscott, another brother became well known as a barrister, an active Governor of St George's Hos

Born at Cheltenham, the son of the Rev Mr Hawkins (d1848), Head Master of the Cheltenham Grammar School (not Cheltenham College), where Hawkins was educated, studying afterwards at St Bartholomew's Hospital. He practised in Wellington Place, Cheltenham, succeeding in 1856 to the practice of Charles

The third son of the Rev Robert Hawkins, Vicar of Lamberhurst, Kent, was born in 1861, educated at Tonbridge School (1872-1879), matriculated at Oriel College, Oxford, in 1879, proceeded to Guy's Hospital in 1882, passed the FRCS in 1887, and had held appointments up to House Surgeon at the time of

Practised at Newport, Monmouthshire, where he was Surgeon to the Newport Fever Hospital and Medical Officer of the West District of the Newport Union. He died on March 21st, 1866. Publication: "A Successful Case of Caesarean Section, Mother and Child Saved." - *Lancet*, 1858, I, 529.

Eric Philip Simkin was a consultant surgeon at Royal Liverpool University Hospital. He attended Jesus College, Cambridge, where he studied medicine, qualifying in 1952. He was an accident officer at Middlesex Hospital, London, and then a surgical registrar at Liverpool Royal Infirmary. Prior to his

Studied at St Thomas's Hospital and then entered the Royal Navy. He was Assistant Surgeon at the Royal Naval Hospital, Cape of Good Hope, and to the Royal Marine Artillery, Eastney. He retired with the rank of Staff Surgeon on August 19th, 1870, and practised at Melksham, Wiltshire, where he was Sur