Educated at the London Hospital. He practised at Montague House, Kenilworth, where, before 1866, he was in partnership with his nephew, Dr George Fowler Bodington (qv). He died on October 17th, 1872.

Joyce Rewcastle Ludlow was a surgeon who spent her working life in Nigeria. She was born Joyce Rewcastle Woods in Sidcup, Kent, on 24 July 1905, the daughter of James Rewcastle Woods, a minister, and Una Marion Pierce née Couch. Both parents were keen members of the Temperance Movement. Joyce studie

Educated at Guy’s Hospital. He practised latterly at 46 Montagu Square, W, where he died on May 12th, 1886.

Born in Shrewsbury on May 18th, 1856, the son of Major James Boyd, 86th Regiment, and Emma, daughter of Henry Newton, a burgess of Shrewsbury. He spent his boyhood with his parents at St Heliers, Jersey, where he was educated in a private school. “I can go back to the charm of his Jersey home at St

Practised for a time in Weymouth and afterwards in Sydney, New South Wales. He was at one time Surgeon to the Weymouth Infirmary. He resided latterly at 24 Lexham Gardens, SW, and died there on April 15th, 1902. Publication:- “On the Structure of the Mucous Membrane of the Stomach,” 8vo, 2 plates,

Born in October, 1816, the son of William Boyes, merchant, of London. He entered the Bengal Army as Assistant Surgeon on Aug 1st, 1841, being promoted Surgeon to the 2nd Bengal Calvary on October 8th, 1855. He was officiating Medical Storekeeper at Cawnpore when the Indian Mutiny broke out, and succ

Robert Pringle was a consultant surgeon in Dundee. He studied medicine in Glasgow, qualifying in 1950, and, after house jobs, completed a four-year short service commission in the RAF, reaching the rank of squadron leader. On leaving the RAF, he specialised in surgery in Glasgow and Newcastle, and

Charles Humphrey Jules Rey was a general surgeon in Guernsey. He was born on 15 August 1915, in Bognor Regis, into a family of French origins. His father, Jules Frederick Rey, was a general practitioner. His mother was Bertha Maud née Bevan. He was sent as a boarder to his preparatory school and fro

James Somervell continued his family’s tradition of missionary work in India. He was born on 23 April 1927 in Kodaikanal, southern India. His father, Theodore Howard Somervell, was a surgeon and mountaineer, who took part in the ill-fated 1922 and 1924 Mallory expeditions to conquer Everest. He beca

Practised first at Rathmines, and then at Castlemartyr, Co Cork, where he died June 29th, 1869.

Born on November 29th, 1818, in the house in Cross Street, Islington, where his father and his grandfather had practised before him. He was educated at the Islington Proprietary School and at Charterhouse. He entered St Bartholomew's Hospital in 1837, and was made a Governor of the institution on No

Born at Belfast on January 17th, 1836, the elder son of Henry MacCormac, a physician at Belfast, and Mary Newsham his wife. The younger son, John, became a director of the Northern Linen Company. His father gained notoriety in the North of Ireland as a strenuous advocate of the fresh-air treatment o