Blagden appears to have been of the family of Sir Charles Blagden (1748-1820), MD, Secretary of the Royal Society, of whom Dr Johnson, speaking of his copiousness and precision of communication, said, “Blagden, Sir, is a delightful fellow”. He was a friend of Horace Walpole and had a large and fashi

Born on Dec 29th, 1788, the third son of the Rev James Mayo, MA, Head Master of Queen Elizabeth’s Free Grammar School, Wimborne, and Rector of Avebury in succession to his father and grandfather. The Mayos may be described as a Wiltshire family, members of it having flourished there as clergymen and

Terry Jenkins was a general surgeon to St Luke’s and the Royal Surrey County hospitals in Guildford. He was born in Shoreditch, London, on 21 April 1913, the second son of Harold and Louise Jenkins, who had a chemists’ shop. They moved to Harrow a few years later. He was educated at the John Lyon an

Frances Selsnick, one of the most remarkable women of her generation, was the first female general surgeon in the United States and the first female American Fellow of our College. Frances was born in New York on 23 December, 1917, the daughter of Harry Selznick and Florence née Greenfield. Having b

D’Arcy Power was born on 11 November 1855 at 3 Grosvenor Terrace, afterwards 56 Belgrave road, Pimlico, SW, the eldest of the six sons and five daughters of Henry Power, then assistant surgeon at the Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital and Ann, his wife and first cousin, youngest daughter of Thomas Simp

Hanns-Martin Goldberg was a consultant surgeon in Manchester. He was born in Sohrau, Germany, on 14 June 1913, and educated in Berlin and Heidelberg, where he received the early part of his medical training. With the coming of Hitler, he went to London where, thanks to University College, he was abl

Educated at the Ledwich School and at Mercer’s and Jervis Street Hospitals, Dublin. He was at one time Acting Surgeon to the Brighton Hospital for Children and Medical Officer of the Brighton and Hove Provident Dispensary. Removing to Hereford, he was House Surgeon to the Hereford General Infirmary.

Born at Exeter on July 6th, 1788, the son of a retired Bristol merchant. He was educated at the Exeter Grammar School and was apprenticed in 1805 to Benjamin W Johnson, and from 1806-1808 to Robert Patch, who was well known as a Surgeon to the Devon and Exeter Hospital. He thus came under the influe

Born at Newcastle; after a grammar school education in Cumberland, became a pupil of Baird, Senior Surgeon to the Newcastle General Hospital, in which Beck resided for some time as an Assistant House Surgeon. Whilst acting in this capacity he was noted for his zeal in securing post-mortem examinatio

Romiel Anthonis was the most celebrated Asian surgeon of his day, and a role model to generations of Sri Lankans. He was born in Bambalapitiya, a suburb of Colombo, on 21 January 1911, one of the 16 children of Polwatte Arachchige Michael Anthonis, a master-carpenter, and Hettiarachchige Engaltina P

Born on April 5th, 1823, the son of James Tyrrell Ross, of Ringwood, Hampshire; he studied at St George's Hospital, and joined the Medical Establishment of the Bengal Army on July 26th, 1845. In 1846 he served with the Field Hospital of the Army of the Sutlej; in 1848 and 1849 with the field force

The third son of the Rev W W Rouch, Wesleyan minister, of Bristol; after going to the Wesleyan School, Kingswood, he studied at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he gained the Junior and Senior scholarships, as well as the Gold Medals of the Society of Apothecaries in botany and in materia medica and