John Samuel Richardson was a former President of the General Medical Council and the British Medical Association who inadvertently played a key role in the resignation of Macmillan in 1963. The son of a solicitor, he was born on 16 June 1910 in Sheffield, where his grandfather had been Lord Mayor, M

Studied at St Bartholomew's Hospital and in Paris. He practised first in London at 8 Hinde Street, then in the United States, where he was Physician to the Columbia General Hospital and to the British and the American Legations. He returned to Cromwell Road, and acted as Physician to the City Dispen

Educated at Guy's Hospital and at Northampton. He practised at Northampton, and at the time of his death was Senior Physician of the Northampton General Infirmary, and Hon Consulting Physician of the Northampton Royal Dispensary. He died at Billing Road, Northampton, on July 21st, 1879. Publication

Born at Whitechurch, Shropshire; began his scientific education at Owens College, Manchester, and his medical education at St Bartholomew's, where he entered after winning the open scholarship in 1881. He was throughout a most brilliant student. He was House Surgeon in 1886-1887 and then Assistant A

Born on October 21st, 1777; he joined the Army as Surgeon's Mate on the Hospital Staff, not attached to a regiment, on June 11th, 1801. He was gazetted Assistant Surgeon to the 61st Regiment of Foot on August 25th, 1804, and promoted to Surgeon of the Sicilian Regiment on March 17th, 1808. He again

The son of Edward Wilson Duffin, MD (qv); was educated at King's College, London, and at the Universities of Edinburgh and Berlin. He came under the influence of Virchow in Berlin, and thus acquired an interest in pathology which coloured all his later work as clinician and teacher. He was House Phy

Educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital and the Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland. He was the second son of Lieut-Colonel Herbert Lloyd, of Chelsea. Settling as a medical practitioner in Bath in 1829, he practised there for more than forty years, holding various medical appointments. At the time of h

Born at Newcastle-upon-Tyne on October 1st, 1810, and came of a Northumbrian stock, both his father and mother being natives of Alwinton. He was educated at Witton-le-Wear, Durham, and in 1827 was apprenticed to T Leighton, Senior Surgeon at the Newcastle Infirmary, to whom £500 was paid as Embleton

Practised at 13 Harley Street, and then at 4 Harley Street. At the time of his death he was Senior Physician to the Metropolitan Free Hospital and to the Infirmary for Consumption, Margaret Street. He died at 4 Harley Street on June 6th, 1871. Publications: *On the Use of Perchloride of Iron and ot

Studied at St Bartholomew's Hospital, and after qualifying was for forty years Resident Medical Officer to the Small-pox and Vaccination Hospital, Holloway, London, N, and was a Principal Vaccinator of the National Vaccine Establishment. From the time of the institution of educational vaccinating st

Born 4 April 1852 at Eaton Socon, Huntingdonshire, the second son and third child of William Hobson, merchant, and Susan Ann Squire his wife. He was educated at Bedford School, where he was first prizeman, and at University College Hospital, where he won the gold medals for physiology, comparative a

Born on May 10th, 1801, the son of one of the principal officers of HM Dockyards at Sheerness and Chatham. He received his preliminary education under Canon Griffiths, of Rochester, and his professional training under Abernethy at St Bartholomew's Hospital. Settling in practice at Dover Street, Pic