Born at Stockton-on-Tees, the son of John Tweedy, a solicitor. He was educated at Elmfield College, York, and at University College, London, from which he went to University College Hospital for his medical course. He qualified in 1872, and in 1873 became a Clinical Assistant at the Royal London Oph

Born at Culgower in Sutherlandshire in 1850, the youngest, and eventually the last survivor, of a family of four, consisting of two sons and two daughters. The Gunns are an old Scandinavian stock and have been settled for many generations in the north and north-east of Scotland. Marcus Gunn was educ

Barrie Samuel Jay was professor of clinical ophthalmology at the Institute of Ophthalmology, University of London. He was born in London on 7 May 1929, the son of Maurice Bernard Jay, a medical practitioner, and Julia Sterling Jay, a housewife. He attended Perse School and then Gonville and Caius Co

Born on January 22nd, 1797, and entered the Madras Army as Assistant Surgeon January 19th, 1822, being promoted to Surgeon on November 18th, 1833. He was an oculist and superintendent of one of the HEIC's Eye Infirmaries. He is included by Lieut-Colonel Crawford in his list of twenty-nine members of

Began practice as a surgeon in the City of London with a city and mercantile family connection, together with a "fair patrimony and a fine personal appearance". He was Surgeon to Newgate Gaol at a salary, followed by a retiring allowance, ample in amount at the time. He was appointed to the newly-ma

Born at Preston, Lancashire, the son of Thomas Maynard; studied at St Bartholomew's Hospital and the Universities of Durham, Paris, Würzburg, and Bonn. He was House Surgeon at the Newcastle Infirmary and Clinical Assistant at the Royal Ophthalmic Hospital. Proceeding to Netley, he passed out third o

Studied at Charing Cross Hospital, where he was Llewellyn Scholar, Assistant Demonstrator of Anatomy and Physiology, and Clinical Assistant in the Ophthalmological Department. Later he was Chief Clinical Assistant at the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital. He joined the Indian Medical Service, and re

The only son and second child of James Scott (1770-1849) by his wife Mary; born at Bromley in Kent, according to the inscription on his funeral tablet, on February 20th, 1799. His father, a general practitioner of Clay Hill, Beckenham, Kent, was in good social standing and of high professional reput

Born on September 29th, 1882, the son of the Rev Robert Oliver, of Strathwell, Whitwell, Isle of Wight, by his wife Agnes Hunter-Baillie, the great-grandniece of John Hunter. He represented the family of John and William Hunter, through whose sister Dorothea he descended. Matthew Baillie, famous in

Born at Chippenham, Wilts. His father, an engineer, died while his son was very young, and his mother, after residing for a short time in Bath, went to London with her only child, who was devoted to her throughout his life. After being privately educated, Silcock entered the Medical Department of Un

Born on 20 April 1879, second son of George Edward D'Arcy Adams, MD Aberdeen, who practised at 1 Clifton Gardens, Maida Vale, London, W, and his wife who was a sister of Robert Doyne, FRCS. He was educated at Lancing, and at Exeter College, Oxford. Here he came under the influence of his uncle Ro

Born at Carmarthen, South Wales, in 1860. He was educated at Hereford School and University College, London, and at University College Hospital, where he served as house surgeon. He practised for a time at Hereford and served as a ship's surgeon with the Peninsula and Oriental Company. He went to Au